BAN ON LIP-STICKED WOMEN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 9

BAN ON LIP-STICKED WOMEN

CLERGY’S RIGHT TO REFUSE COMMUNION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 13, 7 pan.) LpNDON. May 13. “A clergyman has no legal right to refuse communion to lip-sticked women,” a Diocesan law officer informed “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 a ‘notorious depraver of the Prayer Book, or an evil liver. Refusal under other circumstances offends the ecclesiastical law and is liable to heavy punishment." A message published yesterday stated: The Rev. Harold Marley. vicar of Sedgeley, is the third clergyman within a month to announce the refusal of communion to a lip-stlcked woman. He also intimates that a bare-legged woman will be asked to leave the church. He says that a girl thrusting unclothed flesh, which is 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. Joseph Munn, Catholic rector of Southgate, is also refusing communion to lip-sticked women. I