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Feminist theology is about more
Than the use of vibrators
In liturgical dance.
Feminist theology is about
The sexist silliness of saying
That God is a cosmic senior citizen
With hair on his chin
But not on his pussy.
Feminist theology's goals
Are to interrogate
The social construction
Of black womanhood
In relation to the African American experience
And ask if "womanist theology"
Might be a more gender-neutral term
Than "feminist theology" -
And more ladylike?
And feminist theology is about
The employment discrimination
Involved in asserting
That 3.5 billion clitorises
Disqualify the human beings
Attached to them
From being priests of Christ
And from the fringe benefits
Which being priests of Christ brings
In terms of pretty dresses
And pensions.
Apparently,
If you are the proud possessor
Of a penis,
You can pray better.
Feminist theology
Questions this dogma.
And feminist theology
Questions other things,
Such as why is it the case
In many churches
That there is so little
Handbag space
Provided on the High Altar?
And why is it is the case
That most medieval
Easter sepulchres
Are not fitted with bidets?
These are live issues
For the female faithful
And they cannot be swept under
The kitchen sink.
It is not easy
To deliver a sermon in church
While you are doing the ironing.
It is true that you could
Get a man in
To do the ironing.
But that would mean
That the man would miss the sermon,
Or do the ironing
Down at the pub.
Or, more likely,
Mow the lawn instead
While laughing loudly
At football jokes
And peeing on the lavatory seat.
Men make such hopeless priests.
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Monday, June 13, 2005
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Sermon abuse
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The vicar strides solemnly
Up the pulpit steps
To deliver the twenty seventh sermon
In his series on the
Surprisingly contemporaneous words
Of the Old Testament prophet, Obadiah.
In the back pew on the left,
Mrs Hartley is ready.
She takes a machine pistol
Out of her handbag,
Points the weapon steadily
At the vicar,
And empties the magazine
Into his open mouth.
It is a NADFAS magazine
About late medieval church furnishings,
So the vicar's death is slow and agonising.
The police conduct a detailed investigation
Into the murder,
And send the papers
To the Crown Prosecution Service.
Several people at the Crown Prosecution Service
Die of boredom
As they review the NADFAS papers
On late medieval church furnishings.
In the end,
The Crown Prosecution Service
Takes the view
That it would not be in the public interest
To prosecute Mrs Hartley
For murdering the vicar.
On balance, they say,
The public good has been greatly enhanced
By the removal of a notorious pest.
There is a clear limit
To the amount of the Old Testament prophet,
Obadiah,
Which the general public
Can be expected to tolerate.
..................................
These days the church
Female bishops
Up the pulpit steps
To deliver the twenty seventh sermon
In his series on the
Surprisingly contemporaneous words
Of the Old Testament prophet, Obadiah.
In the back pew on the left,
Mrs Hartley is ready.
She takes a machine pistol
Out of her handbag,
Points the weapon steadily
At the vicar,
And empties the magazine
Into his open mouth.
It is a NADFAS magazine
About late medieval church furnishings,
So the vicar's death is slow and agonising.
The police conduct a detailed investigation
Into the murder,
And send the papers
To the Crown Prosecution Service.
Several people at the Crown Prosecution Service
Die of boredom
As they review the NADFAS papers
On late medieval church furnishings.
In the end,
The Crown Prosecution Service
Takes the view
That it would not be in the public interest
To prosecute Mrs Hartley
For murdering the vicar.
On balance, they say,
The public good has been greatly enhanced
By the removal of a notorious pest.
There is a clear limit
To the amount of the Old Testament prophet,
Obadiah,
Which the general public
Can be expected to tolerate.
..................................
These days the church
Female bishops
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