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Article: Episcopal Church still on verge of civil war over gays.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2006
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Byline: David C. Steinmetz
The Episcopal Church USA, the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, will hold its triennial convention in Columbus, Ohio, on June 13-21. Ordinarily a meeting of this kind would be of no interest whatever to the 295 million Americans who are not Episcopalians and only of limited interest to the 2.3 million Americans who are.
But at its last convention in 2003, the Episcopal Church caught the attention of an otherwise indifferent public by consenting to the election of an openly gay man, V. Gene Robinson, as the bishop of New Hampshire. The action represented a break with a longstanding policy in almost all ...