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• Fresh doubts about the bishops | As the bishops prepare for their semiannual meeting this week in St. Louis, the prospect for lasting progress looks bleaker than in 2002 (Editorial, Chicago Tribune)

Anglican church debates gay bishops:

• Confirmation would deepen divisions, likely cause rupture | The confirmation of Canon Robinson would in effect change church teaching (James M. Stanton, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• My only call is to share the good news of Jesus Christ | Everyone seems to be focusing on how many people may leave the Episcopal Church over my selection. I want to focus on how many people may come to the church because of this (V. Gene Robinson, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Episcopalians risk schism | Diocese elects an openly gay man as bishop, but will it be approved? (Michael J. McManus, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Gay communion | Can the worldwide Anglican church survive the developing schism over whether it should accept the ordination of homosexual clergy? (Stephen Bates, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Bishops try to stop gay appointment (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Bishops criticize gay rights appointment | A group of bishops has written a joint letter criticising the appointment of a gay rights supporter as Bishop of Reading (BBC)
  
  
• Church split as first gay bishop named | Bishops have spoken of their "grave concern" at the appointment of a homosexual theologian to a senior position within the Anglican Church (Daily Post, Liverpool)
  
  
• Archbishop faces revolt as gay row escalates | A quarter of the Church of England's diocesan bishops led an unprecedented revolt against the new Bishop of Reading yesterday (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Evangelical threat to split Church of England over gay bishop | Some parishes are threatening to withdraw the financial contributions they make to diocesan running costs and in effect make a unilateral declaration of independence from the Church of England, though so far only one, in the City of London, has done so (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Gay priests don't harm the Church of England half as much as its Pharisees | When the evangelicals failed to prevent David Jenkins's consecration on theological grounds, they hit upon a campaign against homosexual clergy as a more popular cause (Andrew Brown, The Daily Telegraph, London)

More on sexual ethics:

• U.S. warns AIDS group on funding | CDC cites S.F. programs that 'appear to encourage' sex (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Gay sacking right 'unlawful' | Legislation allowing religious employers to sack gay and lesbian staff may be unlawful and should not be passed into law without further consultation and debate in the House of Commons, a powerful committee of MPs and peers warned yesterday (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Gay Canadians' quest for marriage seems near victory | Dozens of gay and lesbian couples have already rushed to municipal buildings in Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton to marry without waiting for a decision by Justice Minister Martin Cauchon on whether he will appeal the Ontario court decision to the Supreme Court (The New York Times)
  
  
• Gay is the new black | The gay rights issue has been a ticking timebomb for the Bush government. And now it looks about to explode (Gary Younge, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Sodom and Gomorrah: the true story | It's about rape, not homosexuality (The Times, London)
  
  
• The love that is not a sin | The catechism of the Catholic Church says that homosexuality can under no circumstances be approved. In extracts from the new book by the Dominican priest Gareth Moore, the church's arguments are dismissed (The Times, London)

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