“I accept Your Majesty as the sole source of ecclesiastical, spiritual and temporal power.”
- The oath of loyalty sworn by Church of England bishops as members of a “Church established under the Crown”
“They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus.”
- Acts 17.7
“[I]n the House of Lords we have the extraordinary situation where religious leaders sit ex officio in the legislature. Only one other country entertains the practice: the Islamic Republic of Iran. Now it is being suggested that because bishops are represented in the Lords, therefore rabbis, Catholic archbishops and imams should also sit there. This, in the early 21st century, is grotesque.”
- David Starkey, historian
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