Offsides. Buggering. Penalty: 20 yards

Primates of the Anglican Church declared today that they want the US and Canada to step out of the game, get right with God and ban homosexuality in the church. Really? Let me get this straight. The Anglican Church, aka: the Church of England, founded by the King of England because the Pope wouldn't let him divorce his wife (and went on to execute two of his next five wives). We're talkin' the 'small-c' branch of Catholicism which allows for priests to marry, drink, procreate, and divorce -- that church? The same institution whose titular head, Prince Charles the Windower, is about to marry his longtime mistress and put her face on a stamp? To be fair, not all Anglicans are Church of England, but the CofE does seem to be the driving force behind this movement, which does kind of make it a political act. You see, funny thing: the so called 'gay marriage' is all the rage among neoconservatives in the US right now, and the Church of England, while holding only two of 38 votes in the Anglican family, enjoys 26 seats in the British House of Lords -- 24 bishops and 2 archbishops -- who are presented and approved to the church -- appointed, if you will -- by none other than the Prime Minister. That would be Tony Blair, and I don't remember any of these amoral shills lifting a finger to prevent the PM from prosecuting a contrived war in Iraq. This "moral high ground" crap is really getting old. Crusade: yes, Buggering: no? We'll pick our bishops, thanks.