Curious. If you click through the link Chris provided, you end up at the Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk), with an article titled "Will George be slayed as England's patron saint?" and containing the following:
The proposal has been put forward by the Rev Philip Chester, vicar of St Matthew's, Westminster, who has called the use of St George as patron saint 'dotty'.Just to be sure the location was in England, I found the website of St Matthew's, Westminster, London, and sure enough, they have a Fr. Philip Chester.
I'd say it looks like your assertion is incorrect -- although to be fair the website does not tell us if this Fr. Philip Chester of St Matthew's, Westminster, London SW1P 2BU is male or female.
Well, it's an interesting phenomenon that I find on this site.
We spend a lot of time bashing the MSM and even more bashing the usuallly-leftist rags spawned in England.
Yet, when presented with information that we want to read or believe it, we choose to believe it, taking anecdotal evidence as fact. "Studies" themselves are so biased, slanted and "made-to-order" that we brush them off without a blink. But, the stuff that we would like to see as truth, we buy in a minute.
So, based on what I have seen and heard from vicars over the years, and from Epicopalians in general, my opinion stands.
Mind you, it's only an opinion, but I can't change it based on articles like these. I would have to meet, know and read a WHOLE lot more to change my mind about Episcopalians feeling that St. George was too macho.
I did see a documentary on the chapel gift shop at Windsor Castle. It WAS this year. The gift shop was to be re-done to bring it up to date with modern times.
They brought in a designer to give the shop a logo for the remodeling and other stuff. The logo HAD to be St. George, of course.
They used a logo based on one of the window pictures of him. So, they built up a nice, large logo and package to present to the committee that decided on such matters.
The eldest vicar, a man OBVIOUSLY of major rank, gave his opinion of the logo: (paraphrasing, but using his own words) "Too effeminate, too androgenous and it would not do."
So, the designer took a copy of a small statue in the gardens. It was one that showed a REAL male, like he would REALLY look in a stylized version of battle. The vicar approved of THAT St. George.
THAT is anecdotal too, of course, but the vicar was quite firm in his condemnation of the an effete St. George. That was another adjective he used to describe the first St. George.
THIS vicar was definitely a male, albeit a very old one.