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• Rowan plea for unity over gay bishop | Sections of the worldwide communion turned their backs on America over the consecration of Gene Robinson (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Lambeth's fragile peace shattered | Dr Williams will need a miracle to heal worldwide schism (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Archbishops condemn 'choice' | The "new realignment" of the 70-million-member Anglican Communion began in earnest this week as about half of the denomination's 38 archbishops condemned the U.S. Episcopal Church for its consecration Sunday of the world's first openly homosexual bishop (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Day the Church split | Worldwide Anglicanism split in two yesterday after conservative leaders representing up to 50 million worshippers angrily rejected the Church's first openly homosexual bishop (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• African Anglicans fear cost of split | The Nigerian Anglican church yesterday led the developing world's chorus of criticism of Gene Robinson's consecration but held back from cutting all links with its sister church in the United States (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Gay bishop is put on blacklist by Anglicans | Kenya's Anglican Church wrote to all its dioceses yesterday, barring them from dealing with the gay Bishop Gene Robinson of the United States (The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• A gay bishop, and a revolt in some pews | Misgivings in the Maine diocese echoes larger Episcopal rifts after Sunday's ordination (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Split church hopes to muddle on | The split over the choice of the openly gay Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in the US seems unbridgeable (BBC)
  
  
• Worshipers faithful despite controversy | Parishioners express mixed reaction to first openly gay Episcopal bishop, but most choose not to leave (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Indian Christians won't accept a gay head | An informal survey (Mid Day, Mumbai, India)
  
  

Anglican woes (opinion):

• The limits of inclusiveness | As they watch the argument among Episcopalians about the consecration of a gay bishop, Catholics must be thinking: we told you so (George F. Will, Newsweek)
  
  
• Gay bishops threaten our foundations | Liberalism has pushed its dogma to a kind of logical conclusion (Janet Daley, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Gay U.S. bishop wrong | It is all right for the Church to disagree with homosexuals, but not right to persecute or exclude them, for we are all sinners (Editorial, New Vision, Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• Rift embarrasses church | Protesters fail to put scripture in perspective (Harry T. Cook, Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Divisions and incongruities | We are out of sync with each other and have been so for some years (William Murchison, The Washington Times)
  
  
• What they said about Bishop Gene Robinson | A roundup of newspaper editorials (The Guardian, London)
  
  

Ten Commandments, crucifixes, and other icons:

• Cherokee okays Commandments | All discussion held behind closed doors (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  
  
• Citizens may pay in Ten Commandments case | Alabama's suspended chief justice says he is fighting efforts to have taxpayers pay attorneys fees for the people who sued to remove his Ten Commandments monument from a state courts building. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Moore packs church | Commandments battle inspires cheering crowd (Pensacola News Journal, Fla.)
  
  
• Moore's appeal | Thank goodness, Supreme Court said no (Editorial, The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Uphold the Constitution, and not a judge's ruling | Pryor's defense of "moral duty" and being "bound by law" reminds me of the defense the Nazis used during the Nuremberg trials (Kelly McBinley, Mobile Register, Ala.)
  
  

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