First Black Female Bishop Defends Justice

The Guardian reports that “Woke” should not be used as a negative term, the Church of England’s first black female bishop has said, in a stinging rebuke against government ministers and others “who are threatened” by the social justice movement.   Such people want others to think it was a “sin created by the left”, the Right Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the bishop of Dover, told the C of E’s ruling assembly, the General Synod.  The Synod later voted unanimously to work to redress racial inequalities within the church. Right Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin is usually considered to be on the progressive wing of the Anglican communion on many issues.  The Huffington Post caught up with her in December 2012, during the UK's debate on marriage equality.  She was quoted in a newspaper interview as remarking "The Church has always been obsessed with sex, I really don't understand it. I have known some decent gay people who are in faithful monogamous relationships and who are hugely committed to each other.  I'm deeply saddened that parts of the Church continue to be obsessed by this whole business. There are so many more important things."  But Hudson-Wilkin earned criticism during a BBC Radio 4 appearance in which she appeared to attack humanists as being "anti-religion" and even seemed to  claim that they should not have the right to marriage.