I'm an evangelical, but some evangelical ordination candidates shouldn't be ordained because they just aren't suitable. There's a danger of a clutch of 'priests' who can only work in Reform churches, which is effectively the start of a new sect.

This just looks like opportunism - English Bishops haven't crossed a line in any way comparable to what's happened in the USA, but Reform are using the current turmoil as a way of developing their own power base. This needs some of the evangelical Bishops like Tom Wright and Michael Nazir Ali to take Reform to one side and have a word.

David Keen, Yeovil, Somerset

"refusing to ordain conservative evangelical clergy for their parishes"

Are there actually any instances of this where the issue was not the ordinand? I mean, I see "conservative" parishes frequently setting simplistic litmus tests of "orthodoxy" for their bishops, locking the doors against him when he doesn't comply, then claiming persecution when he justifiably disciplines them. I have to wonder if this is not the same thing, defiant "valiant defenders of the faith" standing up against the "heathen reassessors" only to have one of these "faithless apostates" then refuse to ordain them because of their bad behaviour and histrionic antics. Sorry, but I have yet to see any true Evangelical persecution, everything looks to me like bishops justifiably disciplining a bunch of strife breeders.

Ford Elms, St. John's,

It appears to me that there are some Kingdom entry principles at stake in the "debate." There is a serious sin problem with homosexual behaviour that cannot be set aside, and this highlights the seriousness of other behaviours such as adultery, theft, greed, drunkeness, slanderering and swindling from 1 Cor 6:9-11; and while there check out Gal 5:19-21.

Ted Cooper, Powell River, B.C., Canada