Obfuscating Archbishops

I see Ophelia is raising an eyebrow here and here at the fact that Archbishops Williams and Sentamu seem to be changing their minds about not resisting the repeal of the UK’s blasphemy laws. I can’t say I blame her. Their letter to Hazel Blears indeed makes interesting reading. Just for fun, I also measured its readability, by using the Flesch Reading Ease index. It scores 36.8. Roughly speaking, on the Flesch Reading Ease scale, 0 is completely incomprehensible and 100 is perfectly readable. So with a score of 36.8, they could try a little harder to make their point clearer. Mind you, this is far better than Archbishop Williams previous effort. I found that his "Sharia" speech to the Royal Courts of Justice scored a miserable 19.2. No wonder he complained about being misunderstood.