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Gay Lifestyle Bishops - It's no big deal ... ? by Peter Moore Anyone who has picked up a newspaper recently knows that the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church has confirmed the election of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson as a bishop by the Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson is an "openly gay" man who left his wife and now lives in a sexual relationship with a male partner. As the furor over his election became an international incident, Canon Robinson justified his decision not to step down saying, "The Church has been ordaining gay bishops and clergy...

What Caused Minneapolis? by Les Fairfield What drove the Episcopal Church over the cliff at Minneapolis in 2003? What led the Church to approve homosexual practice, by approving the Rev. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire? Was it mere cowardice? A failure of nerve? A capitulation to the culture of white upper-middle-class American suburbia? In part the decision at Minneapolis grew out of all these causes. But the most important cause was theological. In the 1960s the leaders of the Episcopal Church revived a non-Christian religion called "Catholic Modernism." And that theological faux pas led directly to the approval...