They’ve pretty much backed themselves into a corner. I have considerable sympathy for the British royal tradition. But when Henry VIII declared that the King was the head of the Church, he set up a troubling paradox that is now coming to an unavoidable head.
The monarch today is a figurehead. Important still, as the symbol who ties the British empire or commonwealth together. But the Queen does whatever the Prime Minister says. So, the PM chooses who will be Archbishop of Canterbury. That’s how they got those gay, heretic losers into the office of Archbishop. Because that’s what Blair and his pale “conservative” imitation wanted.
Put a man who murders and divorces his wives in charge of the Church, and eventually it comes down to this.
Constantine the Great?
Well said.