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By Quentin Langley

The Church of England has come under fire for an "offensive" joke about gay marriage and the glamour model, Katie Price, also known as Jordan. Reviewing the tweets it is difficult to find anything offensive in them. Indeed, on an issue which breeds deep passions and strong feeling of offence, deflecting the issue with humour was probably the only way of handling it without causing offence. 

There? Offended yet?

This is a particularly difficult issue for the C of E, which is deeply divided on gay marriage. Your columnist is hardly an expert on theology, but finds it easy to imagine that many other religious organisations – some evangelical churches, for example, or the Quakers – could take a firm stance without, at least, causing any internal offence. Their position would, however, offend many others. The C of E cannot even avoid internal conflict, other than by deflection.

On the whole, every neatly handled.