For this reason, I want to give if not two, at least one-and-a-half cheers for the attempt by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to square the circle over the introduction of women bishops.
The Devils fans who have adored him for a decade and a half even cheered derisively for saves he made after the game was out of reach.
As half of a rare sellout crowd at the National Car Rental Center booed and the other half cheered, Bure winked at a section behind the goal.
There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
But it would be the other half cheering in the bottom of the ninth.
"We all have our doubts and fragilities," Affenlight thinks, "but poor Henry had to face his in public at appointed times, with half the crowd anxiously counting on him and the other half cheering for him to fail".
The clip sees cast members from Friends, Will & Grace, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and Cheers all crossing paths.
But after the conflict became public, Bishop Egan was overruled by Cardinal O'Connor, who allowed Father Rafferty to stay on for another year and a half, to the cheers of his student congregation.
"But make some noise!" A half-hearted cheer.
