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• Raised signs, voices at UNH | As 2,500 to 3,000 people came to celebrate the consecration of V. Gene Robinson as Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, they were forced to enter the arena through a corridor defined by 12 screaming protesters with graphic signs condemning homosexuality on one side, and about 300 students on the other, trying to drown them out with songs and shouts about God's love (The Boston Globe,video)
  
  
• Reactions among locals split | Reactions to the consecration of an openly gay Episcopal bishop Sunday illustrate the divisive nature of the issue within the denomination and in the local diocese. (GoMemphis.com, TN)
  
  
• Rift on gay bishop felt here, too | Area Episcopalians spent All Saints' Sunday attending services, celebrating baptisms, praising the Lord together and learning to worship in disagreement over the consecration of the church's first gay bishop (New Haven Register, Conn.)
  
  
• Robinson consecrated as bishop | He urges listeners to embrace critics (Concord Monitor, N.H.)
  
  
• Robinson elevated as first gay bishop | Ovations, protest greet Episcopal ceremony in N.H. (The Boston Globe, video)
  
  
• Robinson's protesters, supporters converge on Durham for ceremony | . Intense controversy surrounded the event, as the now consecrated Robinson is the only openly gay Episcopal bishop in the church. (Portsmouth Herald, New Hampshire)
  
  
• Robinson's consecration quotes | Quotes from and about Sunday's consecration of Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson (Associated Press)
  
  
• State's Episcopalians have reason to celebrate today | Today, we join others across the state and nation in recognizing the consecration of the Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson. (Editorial, Portsmouth Herald, New Hampshire)
  
  
• 'The communion is already broken. Now just prepare for the backlash' | So says Gregory Venables, primate of several South American countries (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Two views from the pulpit - in just one church | A Sunday in South Africa highlights church divide (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Unholy row reaches its peak | The ceremony was being treated as a landmark event for gay activists, American Episcopalians, their fellow Anglicans in other nations and Christianity in general (The Scotsman)
  
  
• US Episcopal Church consecrates first gay bishop, sparking furor (AFP)
  
  
• Williams anger as ceremony for gay bishop tears Church apart | The worldwide Anglican Church was torn apart last night, with the Archbishop of Canterbury leading the critics of its first openly active homosexual bishop (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

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