The Sunday after

Hurting and disgusted, Episcopal bishop Peter Beckwith of the Diocese of Springfield (Ill.) packed his bags three days early and drove home from Minneapolis. Hours before, his fellow bishops had voted 62-43 to confirm the election of V. Gene Robinson, an open gay living with a male partner, as a bishop (WORLD, Aug. 16). Bishop Beckwith told his clergy back home the "dichotomy" didn't make sense: "If [Rev. Robinson] were a priest in this diocese, I'd refer him for trial for conduct unbecoming a priest."

Across the country, bishops and parish rectors (pastors) scrambled to contain the damage on the first Sunday following the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) decisions to confirm Rev. Robinson and recognize same-sex blessings as being "within the bounds of our common life."

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August 23, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 32

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