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  • Episcopalians revolt with their pocketbooks

    08/28/2003 5:40:26 AM PDT · by ModelBreaker · 45 replies · 261+ views
    Denver Post ^ | 8/28/03 | Eric Gorski
    On a recent Sunday morning, Jack Scrivner tore open his pledge envelope at Grace & St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs, wrote "restricted" on his check and put it on the collection plate in disgust. The retired Air Force officer and professor didn't want any of his income going to the Colorado Episcopal diocese, whose bishop and delegates had just voted to approve the nation's first openly gay bishop, New Hampshire's Gene Robinson. "I don't know how else to oppose it right now," the 77-year- old Scrivner said. "I could write a letter to the bishop, but I've tried...