Four women who chained themselves to the pulpit of St Paul’s cathedral cut through the bolts after six hours on the advice of police, avoiding arrest…
he women wrapped chains around their waists after a prayer that Church officials had invited them to give. One, Josie Reid, chained herself to her wheelchair.
The action came on the anniversary of the Occupy protest last year when protesters took over the square outside.
I have read this and the two associated items above. How self-indulgent of the women, and self-dramatizing; and self-righteous too, I fear. Do they have any idea how disruptive this is of the dignity of Christian worship, of the stress it brings to those who have to deal with them? Utterly selfish. But the cathedral seems to have dealt with them far too leniently, even co-operatively, in the past, and so the Occupy people are just taking advantage of Christian kindness and gentleness. In my not-so-humble opinion.