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I found out on Wikipedia that Rep. Brad Miller, Democrat, North Carolina, is a Daily Kos poster! It appears from his posts that he attended their convention in Las Vegas.

COLUMBUS, OH: Gay Eucharist attracts 1,000+ By Hans Zeiger VirtueOnline Correspondent COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/16/06)-Over 1,000 homosexual and pro-homosexual clergy, bishops, and laymen of the Episcopal Church celebrated Eucharist Friday evening at Trinity Episcopal Church, just blocks from the site of the 75th Episcopal General Convention. "This is a small taste of what heaven must be like," said the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, as he began his sermon to the prolonged cheers of the adoring congregation. Then Robinson was brought to tears as he thanked his homosexual partner Mark, three years after the Episcopal Convention at...

I got a minus 51 on my last test. I couldn't be more delighted. "It seems you take many sensible precautions,'' was the automated evaluation from my online tester. The exam tested my risk of being burglarized. I hate to be the guy or gal who scored more than 120. "You are going to be burglarized as soon as a burglar or setup man discovers your home,'' the exam giver dryly notes. The test I took is called "Rate Your Risk,'' found online at www.rateyourrisk.org. The site also offers two other fun but informative and insightful surveys that measure your...

Just a reminder: Free Republic is a conservative site. We fight for conservative principles, values and causes. We defend the Constitution. We defend our borders. We defend our God-given rights. We are opposed to the liberal/socialist/Marxist agenda for America. We do not willingly give up ground to the Marxists. It's true that the illegal immigration issue is very discouraging, and I don't know if anyone has a solution that will appeal to conservatives and yet manage to get by Democrat obstructionism, ie, a filibuster, but I don't see that as any reason to give up everything. We should not allow...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- New York Times Co. on Wednesday said it expects first-quarter earnings to be in the range of 22 to 24 cents a share, including expenses of 2 to 4 cents a share related to job cuts the company announced last September. New York Times Co. (NYT) earned 76 cents a share a year earlier, bolstered by a gain totaling 46 cents a share from a sale of company headquarters and another property. New York Times said first-quarter earnings may also be impacted if it is determined that one of its joint venture equity investments has lost value....

Motley Fool A Dubious Sign of the Times Tuesday March 7, 3:17 pm ET By Tim Beyers I've long wanted to own stock in New York Times (NYSE: NYT - News) for several reasons. I love the paper. I'm a big fan of About.com. And then there's sentimental angle: I'm a New York native. But there's one big reason why I'm not buying the stock. A check of the proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday reveals that chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson both received hefty bonuses despite meeting less than 60%...

E-mail informs surprised clergy of 'increasing dependence' Bishop V. Gene Robinson told clergy he had an "increasing dependence on alcohol." "I am writing to you from an alcohol treatment center where on February 1, with the encouragement and support of my partner, daughters and colleagues, I checked myself in to deal with my increasing dependence on alcohol," Robinson wrote in an e-mail to clergy Monday that was released Tuesday by the Diocese of New Hampshire. In his letter, Robinson said he had been dealing with alcoholism for years and had considered it "as a failure of will or discipline on...

Letters from the Bishop and the Standing Committee of the Diocese of New Hampshire: February 13, 2006 Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am writing to you from an alcohol treatment center where on February 1, with the encouragement and support of my partner, daughters and colleagues, I checked myself in to deal with my increasing dependence on alcohol. Over the 28 days I will be here, I will be dealing with the disease of alcoholism-which, for years, I have thought of as a failure of will or discipline on my part, rather than a disease over which my particular...

Vicki Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire has come out of the closet and admitted that he is an alcoholic. He is now in a rehab clinic. The bishop wrote saying he was in an alcohol treatment center with the encouragement and support of his partner, daughters and colleagues, and had checked himself in to deal with his increasing dependence on alcohol. He says he will be there for 28 days. "I will be dealing with the disease of alcoholism-which, for years, I have thought of as a failure of will or discipline on my part, rather than a...

Letter from the Bishop of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson February 13, 2006,Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am writing to you from an alcohol treatment center where on February 1, with the encouragement and support of my partner, daughters and colleagues, I checked myself in to deal with my increasing dependence on alcohol. Over the 28 days I will be here, I will be dealing with the disease of alcoholism-which, for years, I have thought of as a failure of will or discipline on my part, rather than a disease over which my particular body simply has no control, except...

The Very Rev. Dr.theol. Paul F. M. Zahl, Dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, a small evangelical Episcopal (yes...one of the few) seminary in Pennsylvania, spoke today St. John's Church, one of the largest Episcopal churches in Charlotte, NC. Dean Zahl said he had no hope in ecclesiology rather full hope in soteriology...meaning he has no hope in the organized Episcopal Church of the USA, rather lays his hope only in Jesus Christ. Interesting, Zahl sees the main problem not one of authority of scripture, rather that of "bishops gone wild" in a power-play of control of the ECUSA....

Gay U.S. Anglican bishop Gene Robinson said on Thursday a Vatican document barring practicing gay men from becoming Roman Catholic priests showed a profound misunderstanding of homosexuality.The document, due to be published next week, says men with "deep-seated" gay tendencies cannot become priests and that only those who have overcome their homosexuality at least three years before ordination can do so."I think the Vatican, or whoever wrote this statement, should spend a little more time listening to its gay and lesbian members rather than putting out statements," said Robinson, having read media reports on the document."This strikes me as language...

A congregation that refused to pay its dues in protest of the Episcopal Church of the USA's ordination of a homosexual bishop has been dissolved by its diocese. Rochester's Episcopal diocese in New York voted Saturday to shut down All Saints Episcopal Church in Irondequoit, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper.The church's property and other assets are to be turned over to the trustees of the diocese. The church refused to pay $16,000 it owed the diocese after the 2003 ordination of Bishop Gene Robinson in New Hampshire – a practicing homosexual – and the denomination's decision to...

Our correspondent talks to Gene Robinson, the gay bishop who has become the focus of Anglican schism THE spectre of schism haunted the opening of the General Synod of the Church of England this week. In a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, 14 primates led by the Archbishop of Nigeria, Dr Peter Akinola, thundered against “unrepented sexual immorality, an offence so flagrant that Paul insisted that the sinner be expelled from the fellowship, and one of a type of sin which he said would cut the offender off from the kingdom of heaven”. While Dr Williams...

True-life 'Robinson Crusoe' lived atop a hill on isle off Chile 09/17/2005 The Asahi Shimbun A team led by explorer Daisuke Takahashi says it has found where the true-life 18th century model for "Robinson Crusoe" spent more than four years in the Pacific Ocean waiting to be rescued. Traces of a structure that Scottish navigator Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721) likely built after he was marooned in 1704 were found atop a hill on what is now called Robinson Crusoe Island, off the coast of Chile, Takahashi said in Tokyo on Thursday. "I have finally reached him," Takahashi said. "In times when...

FreeRepublic – an online community "I had not been all that politically active prior to President Clinton's election," Robinson recalls. "Yes, I complained about government and politics just like everyone else … but politics was not particularly high on my list of priorities – until Slick came along." Robinson saw that the Clintons had brought a new and dangerous level of corruption to American politics. He could no longer remain aloof. "I knew that the newspapers and news media were lying and I knew that government had been encroaching on our individual rights and that our politicians were as corrupt...

The Episcopal Church Self-Destructs over Homosexuality Episcopalians Defend the Consecration of a "Gay" Bishop By Allan Dobras The Episcopal Church has been flirting with a disastrous schism for the last thirty-five years, and now a formal breakup seems inevitable following an unapologetic June 17–22, 2005, appearance before the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England. The purpose of the meeting was to hear the church's defense of its consecration of "gay" Bishop V. Gene Robinson. Over the years, the denomination continued to hang together as it blundered through several divisive issues while causing its rolls to plummet by about 1.3...

Archivists are about to unseal a mother lode of military history along Page Avenue in Overland. A ceremony Saturday at the National Personnel Records Center will mark the opening of military files that until now have been off-limits to most Americans. Among the gems: * Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's rating in mid-1944 of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. The report closes with these words on Patton: "A brilliant fighter and leader. Impulsive and quick-tempered. Likely to speak in public in an ill-considered fashion." * Gen. Omar Bradley's radiogram in 1951 to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo, in which Bradley quotes...

"PhDs with guns" Linda Robinson's "Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces" Reviewed by W. Thomas Smith Jr. Few Americans had ever heard of Special Forces before the release of the Vietnam-era movie, The Green Berets (1968), starring John Wayne. But by 1982, when First Blood – starring Sylvester Stallone as a former Special Forces soldier on a payback rampage – was released, almost every American schoolboy had at some point fancied himself a member of the U.S. Army's vaunted Green Berets. Countless books and articles have since been written about the Army's Special Forces, but U.S....

This interview was offered to both candidates for North Carolina Republican Party Chairman: Councilman Vernon Robinson and NCGOP Chairman Ferrell Blount. Dear Sirs, Like most North Carolinians, I tend to focus on general elections, rather than primaries and intra-party races. However, I recognize the importance of party leadership. And, with our state convention swift-approaching, many activists have put forward some remarkably relevant questions. The following interview represents a handful of these inquiries, and I hope that you can both find the time to answer your friends and fans across Carolina. Sincerely, JTP Interview for NCGOP Chairman’s Race 1. Many Republicans–many...

The life and faith of Jackie Robinson “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”—Jackie Robinson By George Mitrovich Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, recently received posthumously the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The presentation of the Gold Medal to Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow, took place at a 90-minute ceremony on March 2, 2005 in the great rotunda of the United States Capitol. President Bush, House Speaker Denny Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, House and Senate Democratic Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry...

Washinton, D.C., April 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com)  The logical consequences resulting from the first ever consecration of a homosexual bishop continued to manifest themselves as Bishop V. Gene Robinson of the U.S. Episcopal Church addressed those Planned Parenthood's fifth annual prayer breakfast in Washington on Friday April 15th.The Washington Times carried a news article in which Rev. Robinson was reported as directing his comments against "people of faith" and suggested that Planned Parenthood should target them so as to "promote abortion rights and comprehensive sex education".  The main theme of Robinson's comments dealt with the reasons surrounding last year's election results...

No I’m not talking about *that* sin. I’m talking about a sin far greater than whatever he does with Whatshisname. I’m talking about his lending his support to those friendly baby killers of Planned Parenthood. He’s going to keynote their interfaith prayer breakfast. Excuse me for a moment. . . . Sorry. Combining “interfaith,” “prayer,” and Planned Parenthood makes me lose my breakfast. I’m a very pro-choice kind of guy. So I say Mr. Robinson has a choice. He can repent. Or he can face the judgement that awaits those who use Christ’s name and offices to support abortionists and...

God bless this country and our president!!!I just returned from an amazing two days in DC for the inauguration of President George W. Bush. I want to drop a few lines about my experience, and to just brag about this amazing week!!!I absolutely love this man, and have followed him since I watched him get sworn in as Governor of Texas back in 1995. In fact, I have a framed Texas flag that flew over the State Capitol that day. I was not able to attend his second swearing in in Texas, but I did get the opportunity to go...

A while back, Los Angeles Episcopal Bishop J. Jon Bruno, in order to reach out to three Los Angeles parishes who have broken away from ECUSA, suggested that there be some kind of international church conference including the African bishops the three parishes placed themselves under.  One of those African bishops, Uganda's Henry Orombi, has now responded.  His letter is reproduced here in its entirety: Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! I, the Archbishop, have just returned home from three weeks of travel and have received your letter dated 3rd November requesting a meeting with Bishops Evans...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - William Armsted Robinson, a top contributor to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, founded Document Handling Limited, one of the nation's first courier services, and sold it for $57 million last year. Competitors United Parcel Service and Federal Express, which fought the sale, wanted Robinson to testify that he was merely a financial front for the minority owner, Germany's Deutsche Post. The U.S. Department of Transportation eventually ruled against their claim and allowed the sale. In a transcript of his sworn confidential deposition, obtained by The Associated Press, Robinson said he had no idea how he came up with his...

SACRAMENTO - He's used his millions to benefit exotic show horses, a home for retired chimpanzees - and California's actor-governor. William Armsted Robinson has quietly become one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top donors, periodically trading off the pinnacle with San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos and Spanish language television entrepreneur Jerry Perenchio. Stockton real estate developer Spanos and Univision owner Perenchio are high-profile businessmen with long-term interests in California. But Robinson is an elusive, reclusive man whose first major foray into influencing politics is the $650,000 he has given Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger fund-raiser Marty Wilson describes Robinson as a "very private,...

Episcopalians aren't making a mass exodus from their church, but dioceses across the country are doing a slow bleed as members realize that a much-anticipated report released six weeks ago has no teeth and that the denomination's ordination of a homosexual bishop will go unpunished.     The Windsor Report, which sought to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over authority and homosexuality, criticizes same-sex blessings in U.S. and Canadian churches and the ordination last year of Bishop V. Gene Robinson. But the report also reprimands Third World bishops who have crossed diocesean lines to help marooned conservative parishes.     Within a few...

For part one, click here. The Bishop of North Dakota on the Windsor Report (from titusonenine): The Report clearly indicates that the controversial actions of the General Convention of 2003 in consenting to the election of a non-celibate gay man to the episcopate and in allowing the experimentation of liturgies to bless same-sex unions were inappropriate and damaging to the Anglican Communion. In light of the clear teaching and position of all four Anglican Instruments of Unity (the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Conference, Primates’ Meeting and Anglican Consultative Council), these actions are interpreted as showing disregard for the moral authority...

NEW YORK -- The first Episcopal bishop who admits being gay said Wednesday that he regretted that his groundbreaking elevation to the church leadership created turmoil in the Anglican Communion. But Bishop V. Gene Robinson said he was not personally responsible for the rift and was not sorry he had been elected. Robinson made the comments in an Associated Press interview two days after an Anglican commission said the U.S. Episcopal Church should apologize for consecrating him without consulting more with other Anglicans, many of whom believe the Bible bans gay sex. "We regret how difficult this made things in...

John Lomperis October 18, 2004 Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson was presented with the Human Rights Campaign’s National Equality Award during the activist group’s eighth annual National Dinner on Friday, October 8. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) describes itself as “America's largest gay and lesbian organization.” Over 3,000 supporters attended the dinner in Washington, D.C. The evening’s message was extremely political. The “Featured Speaker” for the night was Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards. She and the other official speakers stressed the urgency of voting to replace President Bush with Senator John Kerry, described an...

HOMOEROTIC BISHOP FICTIONALIZES THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS LIFESTYLE News Analysis By David W. Virtue New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson predicted recently that the upcoming Lambeth/Eames Commission report judging what his consecration had done to the world's 77 million Anglicans would not lead to a split in the Anglican Communion. He then predicted that the communion would be a stronger place for having had this conversation, telling a Washington DC parish that it would stay together. He then went on to say that it was canonically impossible to undo his consecration and that the debate over his sexuality is a...

The call was made by the Lambeth Commission, set up after the ordination of Gene Robinson threatened to split the worldwide Anglican church. Commission chairman Irish Anglican leader Robin Eames concluded: "There remains a very real danger that we will not choose to walk together." The report called for a moratorium on the consecration of gay candidates. It demanded an explanation from the Anglican Church in the US, known as Episcopalian, about "how a person living in a same gender union may be considered eligible to lead the flock of Christ". Scripture must be used to back up the explanation,...

Liberals have warned that the Church of England would break into "civil war" if the American Church is disciplined for its consecration of the Anglican Communion's first active homosexual bishop. There could be mass resignations amongst clergy who are sympathetic to the action taken by the Episcopal Church of the USA (ECUSA), according to the Dean of Southwark, the Rt Rev Colin Slee. He said that recommendations from the Eames Commission that propose the exclusion of bishops supportive of Canon Gene Robinson's consecration from future Anglican summits would be devastating for the unity of the Communion Church of England. "There...

A delegation of American bishops flew into London yesterday for talks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, following reports that they are to be severely disciplined by the worldwide Anglican Church. The liberal bishops have been dismayed by suggestions that they could be barred by Dr Williams from Anglican summits as punishment for backing Anglicanism's first actively gay bishop last year. The delegation has the support of the liberal Primate of the American Episcopal Church, Bishop Frank Griswold, who presided at the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire. Bishop Griswold is also understood to have...

Foxx calls for runoff in 5th District The Associated Press July 28, 2004   7:23 am WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- State Sen. Virginia Foxx has notified the State Board of Elections that she wants a runoff in the Republican primary for the 5th Congressional District, but her opponent says she should withdraw from the race.Winston-Salem Council Member Vernon Robinson, who outpolled Foxx in the primary, said that Foxx should follow the lead of Richard Vinroot, who said last Thursday that he would not ask for a runoff in the Republican primary for governor. Vinroot finished second to Patrick Ballantine."If she is...

Toledo police detective Steve Forrester, left, and Tom Ross, an investigator with the Lucas County prosecutor's office, and formerly of the Toledo police, talk about the Robinson case. Allegations made last year by a Toledo woman that she was sexually and physically abused as a child by Catholic priests during Satanic and sadomasochistic rituals led to the reopening of the 1980 case of a nun's murder for which the Rev. Gerald J. Robinson was arrested Friday, authorities said.

Frank Griswold was in New Haven, Connecticut over the weekend to help Christ Church Episcopal celebrate its 150th anniversary. As expected, the over/under on the word "reconciliation" was through the roof: Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, visited the Christ Church Episcopal this weekend for its 150th Anniversary. Griswold presided over the Easter celebrations for the entire weekend, starting with a mid-day Good Friday service. The power of Jesus' sacrifice to help heal wounded relationships formed the core of Griswold's sermon Friday. Griswold said he recognized the possibility of reconciliation when he was in New...

As Paul Zahl, the Dean of Advent Cathedral in Birmingham recently said, the accusation of “homophobia” when once leveled within our church at a Christian interlocutor, has the effect of stopping conversation cold and, with a little manipulation, tainting reputations and spoiling careers.   It is also grossly unfair when used, in the present debate over the proper Christian teaching regarding sexual behavior, as a way to characterize most conservative parties to the discussion, whose theological concerns go far deeper then reactive emotions of insecurity.   For a long time something similar could have been said about the charge of “fascism”.  Fortunately,...

Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes just interviewed the new Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, famous for being a practicing homosexual man, whose consecration will be responsible for splitting the Anglican communion. Did anyone else see it? It turned my stomache. This man doesn't have a moment's doubt about what he has done, no matter the consequences, no matter how much division and strife he brings to however many honest and devout Episcopalians or Anglicans worldwide. He just doesn't care. "God is doing something new" through him. How is it possible that an adult person can be so completely self-involved? God save...

St. Louis television news reports the Church of the Good Shepherd story [Eala: registration required]: The Church of the Good Shepherd in Town and Country has been here almost 50 years. This past weekend member voted to leaver their parent Episcopal Church. Parish leaders urged the split following several divisive issues in church policy including the installation of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire. The Episcopal Church plans to fight back. Missouri Bishop George Wayne wants Father Paul Walter, the priest at Good Shepard, defrocked. The bishop is also suing saying the church property in exclusive Town and Country...

"What on earth do those people think they're doing?" That has been the response of innumerable people watching the Episcopal Church, and perhaps the Anglican Communion, on its course of self-destructing. In these pages, Philip Turner, a distinguished Anglican priest, missionary, and theology professor, writing in sorrow laced with anger, gave one answer to the above question (see First Things, November 2003). It is easy to dismiss people with whom we strongly disagree as being either ignorant or crazy, or both. But we owe them and ourselves the effort of trying to understand what they think they are doing, and...

Walter V. Robinson is the Boston Globe reporter who originally reported the Bush AWOL story based largely on misrepresenting the casual remarks of Brig. Gen. Turnipseed. He has a history of such things, apparently. Here is a court decision upholding a libel suit against him, brought by a Republican Candidate he slandered in one of his stories: John R. Lakian v. Globe Newspaper Company & another n1 n1 Walter V. Robinson. No. N-4200 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 399 Mass. 379; 504 N.E.2d 1046; 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1172; 13 Media L. Rep. 2368   November 6, 1986, Argued   March...

Anglicans in Kenya are ready for split in the church over gay priests, writes Adrian Blomfield Architecturally, St Francis's Church in the Nairobi suburb of Karen would not seem out of place in a village in Kent. But there the similarities end. The Book of Common Prayer still sits on the pews and is used every week, although not in every service. The congregation still sings from "Ancient and Modern" hymnbooks. But it is not just the style that is traditional. Parishioners are deeply conservative. Most believe homosexuality is abhorrent. "The church is very strongly against a person who has...

Anglicans in Kenya are ready for split in the church over gay priests, writes Adrian Blomfield Architecturally, St Francis's Church in the Nairobi suburb of Karen would not seem out of place in a village in Kent. But there the similarities end. The Book of Common Prayer still sits on the pews and is used every week, although not in every service. The congregation still sings from "Ancient and Modern" hymnbooks. But it is not just the style that is traditional. Parishioners are deeply conservative. Most believe homosexuality is abhorrent. "The church is very strongly against a person who has...

LAW OF THE LANDN.C. Commandments monument removedU.S. House candidate inspired by Judge Moore installed it at city hall Posted: January 20, 20043:47 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Ten Commandments monument inspired by ousted Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore was removed from a North Carolina city hall one day after it was installed by a council member. Winston-Salem councilman Vernon Robinson Vernon Robinson, a candidate for a vacant U.S. House seat, said he paid $2,000 out of his personal funds to install the monument at the Winston-Salem city hall, which was deserted because of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the...

The Rev. Brad Jones, an opponent of homosexuality in the church, reads his prayer book at Christ Church Episcopal in Schenectady. (Steve Jacobs / Times Union) The consecration of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, is tearing apart the Episcopal church. Keith St. John is a "cradle Episcopalian" -- born and raised in his faith. In 1989, he gained prominence as the nation's first black, openly gay elected official when he won a seat on the Albany Common Council."I see my sexuality, which cannot change, as a blessing and gift from God," said the 45-year-old lawyer, who...

DURHAM, N.H. -- After protests from some residents, officials in Durham have moved their town polling place. Initially, Durham voters were to cast ballots in the presidential primary and next fall's elections at the Durham Evangelical Church, but some said the church should not be used because it held a worship service opposed to Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson's consecration. The church leadership opposed Robinson's consecration because he is gay. The town has moved the voting place to the Heidelberg Web Systems building. The town's regular voting place, Oyster River High School, can't be used in 2004 because of construction there.

CONCORD, N.H. -- In the two months since the Rev. V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as New Hampshire's new Episcopal bishop and became the nation's first gay bishop, he has had to make some small and sometimes unsettling changes. With great reluctance, he has finally decided to give up his front-room office in Concord. He worried that church members would think he was less accessible. But his security advisers convinced him that he couldn't work in front of a large glass bay window. If he had stayed there, he said, they told him he might as well paint a target...

The following is the testimony given by Rev. Earle Fox, an Episcopalian priest who was the first person to address the 3,000 people present last Sunday for the consecration of Gene Robinson as a Bishop in the diocese of New Hampshire. The ceremony was at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center. After that, Rev. Fox tells his observations and feelings about the event. Bishops, priests, deacons, and layfolk. It breaks my heart to be here. I am Earle Fox, a priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. I thank the Diocese of New Hampshire and you all here...