A reminder
People who are on slippery slopes don't like slippery slope arguments.
The slippery slope argument says that once you allow ‘A’, you are at the top of a slippery slope which will sloppily and slippily carry you down the slidy thing you are on to ‘Z’. The people who are heading in the direction of ‘Z’ tend not to like being told they're heading that way, presumably because they are ‘A’-type people.
So with apologies to people who don't like slippery slope arguments, here's a reminder about what conservative, reformed evangelicals were arguing about five—okay, seven—years ago in the Church of England:
It is no good arguing that female presbyteral ministry is only a second order issue.
For the sake of argument let us say that it is. An evangelical then finds himself in the invidious position, not only of having to create a canon within the canon of Scripture but also of having to argue that it is perfectly all right for a church to be a little bit disobedient to Scripture.
The current argument (we're told by those who managed to convince us about the previous argument) is about whether or not to install practising homosexuals as Anglican bishops within the Church of England. I'm not convinced that it is really about that, but I am more and more convinced about slippery slopes.
