Church of England is asked to ban protesters during historic women bishops' ordinations

An organization that supports women bishops asked the Church of England to prevent a protester from expressing "discrimination" against the ordination of female bishops once and for all.

Women and the Church (WATCH), which seeks gender equality, wrote a letter addressed to Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, requesting that the protester be banned during the ordination rites of female bishops because his protest "undermine(s) the women being consecrated."

The protester was identified as Rev. Stephen Holland, who leads an independent church in Bolton, Lancashire, according to Kent Online.

Holland apparently considered the consecration of women bishops as "unbiblical."

WATCH claimed that allowing the man to interrupt ordination rites so that he could express his objection sends the message that the Church is allowing a woman called by God to minister to be insulted.

The organization, in an article posted on its website, explained that the protester had already been given several opportunities to say his objection in four different occasions: at St. Paul's Cathedral in September 2015, in York in November 2015, at Westminster Abbey on February and in Canterbury on June.

"I hope we can now say that his objection has been fully voiced and that from this point onwards consecration services should proceed without his objection being given space," WATCH said.

During the consecration of Jan McFarlane as suffragan bishop of Repton and Jo Bailey Wells as suffragan bishop of Dorking in Canterbury last month, the protester appeared holding a placard that says, "Mrs Jo Bailey Wells and Mrs Jan Macfarline you are IMPOSTERS. There are no women Bishops in the Bible!" Kent Online reported.

The placard showed a verse, 1 Timothy 2:2, which says, "I suffer not a woman to teach."

The head of WATCH walked out as the man took the floor to once more voice his objection. The walkout was meant to resist the words of discrimination against women clergy.

The organization gave a reminder that the church had been called to "stand up against discrimination."

"At the next consecration of female bishops, we hope that things will be arranged differently," the organization said.