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• Scripture and sexual behavior | "Progressive" Episcopal clergy, and their counterparts in Canada and Britain, are increasingly preoccupied with politics and have become a marginalized faction within Anglicanism (George F. Will, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Bishop-elect: Relationship is 'sacramental' | Family defends gay cleric; Episcopal leaders remain divided on confirmation (The Washington Post)
  
  
• For a bishop appointed, an overflow crowd | For his first Sunday Mass after his appointment as bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn was announced, Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio Jr. kept it simple: He sermonized about bread (The New York Times)
  
  
• Episcopal debate on gay rites is polite, passionate (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Anti-gay Anglicans turn their fire on US | Convention warned of schism if homosexual bishop is confirmed (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• New York leads Episcopal liberals | The Diocese of New York is proudly carrying the liberal flag into battle, trumpeting the very inclusive and pluralistic positions that have agitated conservatives here and abroad into threatening to split the church (The Journal News, Westchester, N.Y.)
  
  
• Jensen warns US church over gays | Anglican Archbishop of Sydney warned that a "constitutional crisis" was inevitable if the Episcopal Church USA voted in favor of approving homosexual bishops (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Earlier: Homosexual issue threatens Episcopal Church | National convention opens today in Minneapolis (Grand Forks Herald, N.D.)
  
  
• Earlier: U.S. Episcopalians may confirm church's 1st openly gay bishop (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Earlier: Episcopalians brace for votes on gay issues | Some threaten split if conference okays openly gay bishop, blessing of same-sex unions (The State, Columbia, S.C.)
  
  
• Earlier: Episcopal convention to tackle homosexuality (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Two old friends to take opposite sides in Episcopal debate (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
  
  
• Earlier: Time arrives for church to vote on gay issues (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
  
  
• Earlier: Ordination vote divides church (Contra Costa Times, Calif.)
  
  
• Earlier: Church's unity is at risk | Episcopalians to face issue of gays. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Earlier: Episcopal leaders gird for battle over gays (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

Gay marriage:

• Gay marriage legalization facing backlash | After some breakthroughs earlier this year, the drive to legalize gay marriage has run into formidable obstacles — blunt opposition from President Bush, a global counterattack by the Vatican, and U.S. opinion polls suggesting rising doubts about same-sex unions (Associated Press)
  
  
• A license to marry | Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized gay privacy, is gay marriage next? (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Is homosexual backlash a permanent trend or mere 'blip'? | For the first time since the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, there's been a significant drop in a trend of rising acceptance for homosexuals (USA Today)
  
  
• Liberal Party's Paul Martin says duty comes before faith | Admits caucus divided over same-sex marriage (CanWest News Service)
  
  
• Bush rejects same-sex unions (Newsday)
  
  
• Also: President opposes legalizing same-sex marriage (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Also: Conservative base pressed president to defend traditional matrimony | The president's campaign strategists have acknowledged repeatedly since the 2000 election that without the enthusiastic support of these conservatives, Mr. Bush will find re-election difficult (The Washington Times)
  
  

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