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1st openly gay Episcopal bishop to divorce husband
AP ^ | May 4, 2014 | RACHEL ZOLL

Posted on 05/04/2014 6:27:26 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while deeply dividing the world's Anglicans, plans to divorce his husband.

Bishop Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where he served for nine years before retiring in 2012.

Robinson would not disclose details about the end of their 25-year relationship but wrote Sunday in The Daily Beast he owed a debt to Andrew "for standing by me through the challenges of the last decade."

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bishop; church; episcopal; lgbt
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I hope wrecking the Episcopal Church was worth it...
1 posted on 05/04/2014 6:27:26 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

At least, for Bishop Vicky Gene, this is a step in the right direction.


2 posted on 05/04/2014 6:30:40 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Her eyes, opening, looked as if they would keep on enlarging until they turned her wrongsideout. ")
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To: Timber Rattler

Satan is smiling.


3 posted on 05/04/2014 6:30:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Timber Rattler

The styrofoam Greek pillars of Obama’s Brave New Homo World are starting to crumble.

What’s next?

Dopers and Choomers giving up cocaine and weed?


4 posted on 05/04/2014 6:31:31 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Timber Rattler

Did he find somebody new?/s


5 posted on 05/04/2014 6:34:10 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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To: Timber Rattler

Not his first divorce, either.


6 posted on 05/04/2014 6:34:15 PM PDT by Mr. Dough (Who was the greater military man, General Tso or Col. Sanders?)
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To: Timber Rattler

Divorce his husband? Then must be the catcher, or wife.


7 posted on 05/04/2014 6:34:46 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Timber Rattler

In 32,000,000,000,000 years, I would have never guessed that they might divorce.


8 posted on 05/04/2014 6:36:18 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Timber Rattler

Why don’t homos just form their own church?


9 posted on 05/04/2014 6:37:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Mr. Dough

Yep. First he divorced his wife and dumped his kids. Now he’s divorced his husband. What’s next, a billygoat?


10 posted on 05/04/2014 6:39:14 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Timber Rattler

Every damn day,this puke wears the Holy cloth to preach his immoral lifestyle and you think the Big Guy upstairs isn’t taking notes?


11 posted on 05/04/2014 6:39:27 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Timber Rattler
Search is your FRiend:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3151933/posts

12 posted on 05/04/2014 6:41:34 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Has he introduced the world to his new 18 year-old boyfriend yet?


13 posted on 05/04/2014 6:46:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Timber Rattler

This is very disturbing news to the people of NH, we can be sure.


14 posted on 05/04/2014 6:49:33 PM PDT by Theodore R. (It was inevitable: Texans will always be for Cornball and George P.!)
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How can you get a divorce if you were never married?.../s

The liberal MSM keeps referring to marriage as “civil unions” everywhere online and on TV. Now I wonder why they would do that? (rhetorical question)


15 posted on 05/04/2014 6:56:33 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Timber Rattler

I’m sure he’ll continue to find ways to satisfy his carnal desires.


16 posted on 05/04/2014 6:57:32 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Timber Rattler

I know a former Catholic who became an Episcopal priest when RCC bishops wouldn’t ordain him with his “life partner” standing there “giving him away to the church”

I am glad he has found companionship (they’ve been together over 25 years).

I still can’t understand why some of these churches accept this sort of thing in their clergy especially. It sets an awful example for the laity
and especially any youth


17 posted on 05/04/2014 6:58:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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he owed a debt to Andrew "for standing by me through the challenges of the last decade."

Correction:

he owed a debt to Andrew "for standing by BEHIND me through the challenges of the last decade."

18 posted on 05/04/2014 7:10:18 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Timber Rattler

The stupid bass turd demanded that he be allowed to “marry” a man and now he wants to “divorce” that man. Freakin’ loon.


19 posted on 05/04/2014 7:19:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Timber Rattler

What is the rule for making reference to the other person in the “marriage” of one man to another? If a man “marries” another man, is that man a “wife” or a “husband”, or a “spouse”?

I say “marries” because it is only what the State has sanctioned. God makes it clear that He cannot sanction when two people of the same sex think they are “married”.


20 posted on 05/04/2014 7:24:45 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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