The Anglican Church sufferes from a peculiar form of schitzophrenia when it comes to the question of divorce, so it comes as no real surprise that the Archbishop of Canterbury has blocked moves by the evangelical wing of the Church to debate Chuck & Camilla’s upcoming wedding at today’s meeting of the Church Synod.

Its a rather curious fact that there are some in the Church who vehemently object to the idea of a divorcee (Chuck) becoming head of the church on his mother’s departure from this mortal coil, despite the fact that the Church owes its position and status in British society solely and exclusively on the desire of a previous king, Henry VIII, to get shot of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn. Historically speaking, the Anglican church owes its entire existance to its ability to sanction an divorce that the Roman Catholic church refused to permit.

Some go even further and predict a possible constitutional crisis if and when Chuck eventually ascends to the throne. Will the church accept him as its supreme governor as a divorcee who went to marry the mistress who was the cause of the breakdown of his first marriage? Will the people accept him as King in that situation?

The Daily Express thinks not, despite polls taken before the announcement of Chuck & Camilla’s engagement indicating that majority of people really don’t give a toss about the pair of them.

As ever, there’s a simple solution to this whole ‘problem’ such as it is - disestablish the Church of England. Separate Church and State and there can be no ‘constitutional’ crisis, not that we’ve a proper constitution to have a crisis with anyway. A solutions go, its simple, effective and clean - just what we need.

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