If females were given mitres

I found this quote whilst leafing through a copy of the Church of England Newspaper (bought only for research purposes):

“Forward in Faith has repeatedly made it clear that the only safeguards it would accept as adequate would be the creation of a third province if females were given mitres.”

I’ve been having a think about the sort of safeguards that might be required for the use of mitres by anyone, male or female. First of all we need to do a bit of a risk assessment. I suppose all of the following are technically possible:

• Incident involving the pointy end of mitre
• Mitre falling off and someone tripping or slipping on it
• Mitre on head too tight leading to lightheadedness and possible falling
• Some sort of Anti-bishop protester sees mitre and throws projectile
• Mitre accidentally bumps into ornate church furnishing causing it to topple

To be honest it seemed to me that most of these are unlikely. But to be sure I did a Google search for ‘Mitre Accident‘, and sure enough such a thing is virtually unheard-of.

I don’t think that a third province will really help anything. At the very most a special roped-off area for Bishops at one end of the church, but nothing more.