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Transcript: Analysis: Anglican Communion asks the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada not to participate in June meeting
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- February 25, 2005
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MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
02-25-2005
Analysis: Anglican Communion asks the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada not to participate in June meeting
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Leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion have asked two of its member denominations not to participate in its June meeting. The Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada have both sparked discord within the world body by blessing gay unions. And in 2003, the US church elevated an openly gay man, Gene Robinson, to be bishop of New Hampshire. So the move by the worldwide body is a way of expressing displeasure with its North American ...