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  • Virginia Parish Leaves ECUSA, Pastor Awaits Possible Reprisal

    11/21/2005 5:01:36 PM PST · by wagglebee · 6 replies · 569+ views
    Agape Press ^ | 11/21/05 | Jim Brown and Jody Brown
    A Virginia congregation says it has left the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) -- and the pastor of that congregation fears his former bishop may take retaliatory action against the parish. South Riding Church is the first parish to leave the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia after two years of conflict over ECUSA's ordination of an openly homosexual bishop in New Hampshire. But Pastor Phil Ashey says his problems with the Episcopal Church run much deeper than its approval of Bishop V. Gene Robinson. "Really the issue of Robinson's consecration and the blessing of same-sex unions is simply the presenting issue of...