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Originally Posted by Kymmy
If we did the same.....
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Bad analogy.
If "we" are discussing heads of sovereign states and their religious machinations, which we are, then the Queen and the Church of England would be the appropriate point of reference and not Parliament.
On that point, and specifically in relation to the Church of England, no clergy can be instituted and inducted into a parish without swearing the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen (the current monarch and religious and constitutonal head of the Church of England).
Swings and roundabouts. Just as the catholic church cannot function effectively without a pope so the Church of England would face the same dilemma without a monarch.
Demanding loyalty from the practitioners of a specific denomination or faith in exchange for leadersghip is not something which is unique to catholicism.