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  • Bishop surprised self with vote to OK gay prelate: Lost 10lbs!

    08/11/2003 12:35:23 PM PDT · by new cruelty · 54 replies · 273+ views
    Palm Beach Post ^ | Monday, Aug. 11, 2003 | ELIZABETH CLARKE
    Southeast Florida Episcopal Bishop Leo Frade voted to approve the church's first openly gay bishop last week -- but not until he searched his soul, prayed and fasted so diligently that he lost 10 pounds. But Frade doesn't want anyone to start calling him a "liberal bishop." He's middle of the road, he insists, and proves it by declaring, "In my diocese there will be no gay marriages." At least not for some time. Frade even surprised himself with his vote to approve Bishop-elect V. Gene Robinson. He had planned to abstain because he didn't want to divide his diocese...