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Article: Gay issues could split Episcopal Church, world Anglican Communion
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- July 28, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Three decades of debate about the role of gays in the Episcopal Church
have created rifts that could finally split the denomination and global
Anglicanism this week when church leaders gather for their national
meeting.
Delegates to the Minneapolis convention will decide whether to approve
blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples and confirm the church's
first election of an openly gay bishop _ V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
The outcome could splinter the 77-million-member global Anglican Communion,
of which the Episcopal Church is the U.S. member. A 1998 gathering
of Anglican leaders, called the Lambeth Conference, approved a resolution
calling ...