From the BBC:

The Bishop of Lewes has been criticised for comparing the debate over the ordination of women bishops to the outbreak of World War II.

The Rt Rev Wallace Benn told a Church conference of Anglicans that he felt there was “real serious warfare just around the corner”.

The bishop said the Church of England into which he had been ordained was “not the same Church today”.

Supporters of women’s ordination said the bishop’s views were “demeaning”.

Speaking at the Reform conference of conservative Anglicans in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the bishop said: “I’m about to use an analogy, and I use it quite deliberately and carefully.

“I feel very much increasingly that we’re in January of 1939.

“What we must not do is create a phoney war, but we need to be aware that there is real serious warfare just around the corner.”

Christina Rees, of Women and the Church (Watch), said the bishop’s views were “demeaning”.

Whatever one’s view of the legitimacy of women bishops, the above comment from Christina Rees is at least useful for the light it sheds on how liberals think: they don’t. Whether Ms. Rees finds opposition to lady bishops demeaning or not is beside the point. The truth is, there are two factions at war with each other in the worldwide Anglican Church. One holds to the orthodoxy of 2000 years of Christian understanding, the other wants to adopt innovations that – the orthodox would claim – make the Church less than Christian.

For all of Rowan Williams’ Hegalian finagling, the two factions can’t coexist within the same organisation: they are diametrically opposed to one another. Lady bishops are the tip of the iceberg; the Anglican Communion is already at war with itself and Christina Rees along, with her cohorts, should open her demeaned eyes and recognise that what Rev. Wallace said is true. It is going to get much worse.