RIGHT OF COMMUNION
"LIP-STICKED" WOMEN
ENGLISH CHURCH LAW
LONDON, May 13. A clergyman has no legal right to refuse Communion to a "lip-sticked" woman, stated the Diocesan Law Officer to the "Daily Mail." Anglicans are permitted to withhold the sacrament only if the communicant does not kneel without good cause, refuses to attend public prayer, or is the "notorious' depraver" of the Prayer Book or an.evil liver. Refusal under other circumstances offends ecclesiastical law and is liable to heavy punishment. A previous cable message stated that the Rev. Harold Marley, vicar of Sedgley, was the third within a month to announce his refusal of Communion to a "lip-sticked" woman. He also intimated that bare-legged women would be asked to leave his church. He said: "A girl thrusting unclothed flesh normally covered before the close attention of males is guilty of gross indecency. It is a cattish trick and the male mind is bound to be diverted from God thereby." The Rev. Father Nunn, Roman Catholic rector of Southgate, is, also refusing Communion to "lip-sticked" women.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 9
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175RIGHT OF COMMUNION Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 9
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