Professor Iain McLean writes on the privileged position of the Church of England

Iain McLean has written an article for openDemocracy.net entitled Same-sex marriage and the Church of England: an argument for disestablishment, concerning whether Parliamentary legislation should apply to the etablished church.

In it he writes: What is going on here? A demand that the established church should be exempt from regulation that applies to every other faith community in England and Wales: just because it is established. If there is a better argument for disestablishment, I have not come across one. The bishop and the noble lord want a sweeping exemption from equality law for the Church of England, and only for that church. Merely to state the claim is to expose its absurdity.

The full article can be read here.

Scot Petersen has also written a piece on this issue for our Politics In Spires blog, which can be read here.