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• Also: Gay pastor employs bodyguards after threats (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Protests grow as consecration nears | Alternative services planned for weekend (Concord Monitor, N.H.)
  
  
• Utah delegates affirm Episcopal Church's election of gay bishop | The more than 200 delegates meeting in St. George over the weekend in the 98th Convention of the Diocese of Utah approved a resolution supporting the national's convention's actions and affirming the votes of the Utah deputation at that convention (Associated Press)
  
  

Robinson speaks to gay Anglicans in the U.K.:

• Gay bishop-elect says church must move on | Gene Robinson told a meeting of gay Christians that he received many letters of support since being elected bishop of the New Hampshire this summer (Associated Press)
  
  
• I can't wait to be bishop, says gay cleric | "I can hardly wait for November 3 [the day after his consecration] when I will hopefully be an old news story and I can get on with what I am here to do." (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Unique appeal of 'homely' canon | Canon Gene Robinson may not have seen the Promised Land, but he hopes it will soon be in his sights (BBC, video)
  
  
• Hate mail 'astounds' gay canon | The first openly gay man to be elected an Anglican bishop has spoken of the hate mail he has received, some of it coming from the UK (BBC, video)
  
  
• Banned service mirrors cathedral color | At Manchester Cathedral, no direct mention was made to the controversy surrounding the banned service (BBC)
  
  

Rowan Williams:

• Williams sparks fury among gays | Liberals are furious that Dr Williams, whom they regarded as their champion, opposes the consecration because it threatens to tear the Church apart (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Williams pulls out of gay meeting | Archbishop 'pressurised by staff at Lambeth not to attend' (The Guardian, London)
  
  

War in New Westminster:

• Anglican priests face church charges | Seven Anglican priests in Greater Vancouver opposed to same-sex blessings have been charged by the Diocese of New Westminster of undermining Bishop Michael Ingham (CBC)
  
  
• Bishop welcomes church's new honesty on gays | Michael Ingham, Bishop of New Westminster in British Columbia, said the Anglican communion was suffering "a breakdown of the former way of doing things" (Reuters)
  
  

Upcoming schism:

• Episcopal property lawsuit filed here | A Shadyside church yesterday filed a lawsuit that could presage efforts to keep Episcopal Church property from being divided piecemeal in the event of a denomination split (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Also: Pa. priest files lawsuit against churches (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church 'to split in a week' over gay bishop | Implacable statements from two of the Anglican church's leading archbishops yesterday put the Church of England on a seven-day countdown to a permanent split (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Episcopal Church at a crossroads | Many fear Robinson's consecration will lead to schism (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  

Other Anglicanism stories:

• Gay priest tipped for Norwich post | Controversial gay clergyman Jeffery John is being hotly tipped to become dean of Norwich Cathedral (Evening News, Norwich, Norfolk, England)
  
  
• Conservative Episcopalians form own network | The board of directors for the American Anglican Council, a coalition of conservative clergy and laity, made the announcement Friday (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Episcopal priest resigns amid gay debate | John Merchant, who wrote an article sympathetic to the church's confirmation of an openly gay priest as a bishop, resigned from a private religious school after administrators asked him to apologize to dozens of people upset with his views (Associated Press)
  
  

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