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Article: Episcopal church to pull out: Plano's Christ Church leaving national body over perceived left turn.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2006
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Byline: Jeffrey Weiss
Jun. 27--Christ Church Episcopal in Plano, one of the largest Episcopal congregations in the United States, has announced that it will leave the denomination over what it sees as the Episcopal Church's leftward drift. Church leaders publicly announced the plan Monday, five days after the end of the denomination's national convention in Columbus, Ohio. At that convention, the national church elected a new presiding bishop, a woman who supported the 2003 confirmation of a gay bishop in New Hampshire. She also supported the creation of locally authorized blessings for gay unions. Christ Church's pastor, the Rev. David Roseberry, was one ...