VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1365431588|CONTENT|@HarryR: As I say, the (nominally) Anglican church I used to attend in my teens had a setup whereby particularly responsible and (dare I say it) &quot;wise&quot; members of the congregation had the opportunity to be elected &quot;elders&quot; of the church - no matter what your social status and no matter what body parts you may have been born with. In principle, then, the spirit of equality was alive and well there.

Bear in mind, though, that this was the rather more socially liberal 1970s, and it was a particularly politically progressively &quot;low&quot; church (no &quot;bells and smells&quot; apart from the electrically-activated de rigueur bell on the roof, and music was as often guitar as organ), so it may well not have been particularly representative.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|