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Article: The atheist and the gay bishop
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- February 13, 2007
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Bishop Gene Robinson has a lot of enemies. One detractor has
described him as the most dangerous Anglican since Henry VIII.
He has a lot of friends, too. When he was consecrated Bishop of
New Hampshire in 2003, so many people wanted to attend the service
that it had to be held in a specially converted ice hockey
stadium.Few of the 4,000 worshippers that day could have known that
the most controversial bishop in the history of the church was
standing before them wearing protective body armour under his
vestments.
When I met him recently in New York, Robinson told me that he and
his colleagues had even devised an elaborate plan to ensure that his
consecration would go ahead, even in the event ...