Did Bishops (In London) Ever Debate Whether Or Not Women Were Human?

[ReptilianPeon]

I'm asking anybody who knows here. That is the claim made by a video (linked below). I am often doubtful about videos with zero sources, with good reason, I'm sure you'd agree, as the video doesn't provide exact dates or not names or anything that could be used to find out more information about these debates. It's very vague, presumably deliberately as it does appeared to be intended to mislead people, and it also makes the claim that people in Paris had a debate and concluded the souls of women are less than those of men. Obviously these are stupid beliefs because if it were true that women were not Human then they wouldn't be sexually attracted to men.
Video:

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How Islam Liberated Women (the title is ironic, I know)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3F14CuMTo

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So my questions are:
1. Did the debate(s) the video claimed took to place actually take place?
2. If the claimed debates did take place, does the video accurately represent what took place and any did Christians ever believe what is claimed in the video?
3. If so, was it a widely held belief? How popular was it?

[dyresand]

Islam never liberated woman NEVER

[robvalue]

Have a look at this, I think it might be what you're talking about. From a brief search it seems to be a false rumour.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Mâcon

[SteelCurtain]

Obviously these are stupid beliefs because if it were true that women were not Human then they wouldn't be sexually attracted to men.

Yes. That is the reason those are stupid beliefs.

[vorlon13]

I don't know about the bishops in London, but we could debate it here.

[ReptilianPeon]

Have a look at this, I think it might be what you're talking about. From a brief search it seems to be a false rumour.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Mâcon

Thanks for that. Although the video claimed that there were separate debates in London and Paris so I guess it was wrong on that. Mâcon is nowhere near Paris or London. Morally speaking, Muhammadans don't have 'a leg to stand on', as it were, so of course they have go out of their way to lie about, or misrepresent the views of, other people. Even if the claim was true, it was a meeting of Catholics - so any Churches which were/are not in communion with the Catholic Church may not subscribe to the views expressed at the conference. For example, some Orthodox Churches are in communion and others aren't - and all Protestants obviously aren't. What I'm trying to say is that it has never been the case that all Christians are Catholic and so Christianity isn't necessarily uniform (outside of Catholicism).

[Pyrrho]

Given the traditional Christian view of women, one might as well say that women are not human. What practical difference does it make if one says, they are human but greatly inferior to men, or that they are not human?

[Brian37]

.All religions have a huge amount of sexism, even if you can find pockets of liberal sects. There is no female Dali Lama either.

Watching religious men in any religion debate what women's rolls should be are mostly done without women. Any religion or culture that cant or wont allow women to make their own life choices deserves nothing but scorn and contempt.

[Brometheus]

I think it might be confused with the Church Council of Macon, France in the year 584, in which they debated the question if women were human.