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Transcript: Analysis: Confirmation of Canon Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, by the Episcopal Church
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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
08-04-2003
Analysis: Confirmation of Canon Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, by the Episcopal Church
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
The Episcopal Church is one step closer to confirming its first openly gay bishop. Gene Robinson won the approval of his parishioners last June in New Hampshire. He won the approval of one of the church's top governing bodies yesterday in Minnesota. And today, the church's House of Bishops takes a vote that could split the church. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports from Minneapolis.
BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY reporting:
Just before 10 AM yesterday, hundreds of Episcopal clergy and lay ...