Catholic bishops with local ties help defeat gay marriage in Maine

Javno.hr Catholic bishops with local ties help defeat gay marriage in MaineKMOX.comLOUIS (KMOX) -- The defeat of a gay marriage proposal in Maine was made possible by contributions from Catholic bishops and their dioceses all around the .
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MO archbishop gives $10,000 to Maine inequality a month after laying off Catholic Charities staffers

   ::: The Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis contributed $10,000 to the campaign supporting repeal of Maine’s marriage equality law, St.
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Over $9M Spent On Maine's Question 1

The National Institute on Money in State Politics has sent us the above breakdown of the groups and amounts funding both sides of Maine's Question 1.
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Maine Catholics Give $86000 To Fight Gay Marriage

On Top Magazine Maine Catholics Give $86000 To Fight Gay MarriageOn Top MagazineDuring the July to September period, the diocese collected $214000 from 56 dioceses and bishops to be donated to the campaign to end gay marriage.
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Gay, lesbian priests among bishop nominees by L.A. Episcopal diocese

Episcopal Church leaders in Los Angeles on Sunday nominated two openly gay priests as bishops, becoming one of the first dioceses in the national church to test a controversial new policy that lifted a de facto ban on homosexuals in the ordained hierarchy.
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Episcopal Church Picks Gay Priests for Promotion

Tensions are likely to increase in the Episcopal Church following the decision of two dioceses to nominate two openly gay priests as assistant bishops.
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Episcopal Leaders Nominate Gay & Lesbian Priests as Bishops

From the LA Times: Episcopal Church leaders in Los Angeles today nominated an openly gay priest and an openly lesbian priest as bishops, becoming one of the first dioceses in the national church to test a controversial new policy that lifted a de facto ban on gays and lesbians in the ordained hierarchy.
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Breaking: L.A. Episcopal Leaders Nominate A Gay And A Lesbian For Bishop

From the Los Angeles Times' L.A. Episcopal leaders nominate 2 openly gay, lesbian priests as bishops:

Episcopal Church leaders in Los Angeles today nominated an openly gay priest and an openly lesbian priest as bishops, becoming one of the first dioceses in the national church to test a controversial new policy that lifted a de facto ban on gays and lesbians in the ordained hierarchy.
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Self-Made Schism

by Paul VarnellFirst published in the Chicago Free Press on July 23, 2009

Recently, delegates to the Episcopal church's triennial general conference voted to allow the ordination of gay bishops, a vote that overturned a de facto moratorium on ordaining gay bishops that was approved three years ago.
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Churches attempt to heal after split

As the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh neared a split, Betsy Hetzler could not follow her beloved Church of the Atonement in Carnegie out of the Episcopal Church.
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Presiding Bishop’s letter to the church on General Convention

"Above all else, this Convention claimed God's missionas the heartbeat of The Episcopal Church" [July 22, 2009] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued a letter to the church about General Convention 2009.
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Episcopalians open doors for gay bishops

Only days after Archbishop Rowan Williams of the worldwide Anglican Communion cautioned Episcopalians against making decisions "that could push us further apart," delegates at their July 8-17 convention in California voted—swiftly and by a large majority—to open the doors for gay and lesbian bishops.
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Maggie Gallagher Goes To Washington

NOM must indeed be very deeply concerned about DOMA's future, if Mistress Maggie herself is heading to DC.
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Pared-Down Episcopal Church Is Looking to Grow Through 'Inclusivity' New York Times

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Episcopal Church is betting its future on the hope that there are more young people out there like Will Hay.
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Episcopal Church Leaders Vote to End Ban on Gay Bishops

In a resolution passed Monday in Anaheim, Calif, Bishops of the Episcopal Church voted at the church's convention to open "any ordained ministry" to gay men and lesbians, a move that church insiders say could effectively undermine a three year old moratorium on ordaining gays and will probably add strife in the Anglican Communion, the world's third largest family of Christian churches.
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Sex and the Priestly: Father Cutie Renews Celibacy Debate

t's hard out there for a pope these days. On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI launched what he is calling "The Year of Priests," exhorting Roman Catholics to spend the coming year honoring the sacrifice of their local pastors and directing priests to encourage each other so that they might, among other things, "be able to live fully the gift of celibacy and build thriving Christian communities.
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Wannabe Anglicans to meet on forming new province - Again

BEDFORD — Representatives from breakaway Episcopal congregations and dioceses — bound together in opposition to gay priests and same-sex marriage as well as in their desire to preach the Gospel — will gather here this week to create a new Anglican province.
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Schismstic x-priest blathers on about why he left

Conservatives Push For Rival U.S. Anglican Church

By Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Weekend Edition Sunday, June 21, 2009 · Martyn Minns recalls themoment he knew he had to leave the Episcopal Church, the U.
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A FIRST: Lesbian elected Lutheran bishop of Stockholm

A female Lutheran pastor who is in a registered partnership with another woman was elected May 26 to be the next bishop of the Diocese of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden.
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SWEDEN: Lesbian elected Lutheran bishop of Stockholm

 A female Lutheran pastor who is in a registered partnership with another woman was elected May 26 to be the next bishop of the Diocese of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden.
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