As further proof, Fr. Stephen Freeman calls our attention to an article informing us that, according to some Church of England clerics, using masculine pronouns for God encourages wife-beating. (Such clerics would never of course say that using feminine pronouns for God encourages husband-beating; only violent husbands encourage husband-beating, you see.) Freeman's reaction: "The Brave New World is crashing down upon us. Someone needs to send for the boys at Monty Python because it’s all become too silly.”
Indeed.