Mass. Episcopal priests protest gay marriage ban
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Five Episcopal priests in Massachusetts have vowed to stop performing all wedding ceremonies until the Anglican Church allows them to bless same-sex marriages, calling their protest a "holy fast."
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Thousands of supporters of legislation that would grant legal rights to unmarried couples including gays rallied Saturday to urge Italian lawmakers to resist Vatican pressure against the measure.Comment
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Description: Influential leaders of the Anglican Communion sharply criticize the US Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop.
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NEW YORKâAnti-gay groups are furious over Vice President Dick Cheney&#39;s seeming dismissal of a federal ban on gay marriage, especially because President Bush himself has gone on record supporting such a ban.
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A report by the Anglican Church issued in London today calls on the Episcopal Church USA to apologize for appointing an openly gay bishop and to refain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.
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A Christian law group is fighting for a ban on gay members
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A leading conservative critic of the U.S. Episcopal Church said on Wednesday its bishops have turned their back on pleas from global Anglican church leaders to take a clear stand against consecrating gays as bishops or blessing same-sex unions.
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LOS ANGELES, CAThe long-threatened schism within the Episcopal Churchin reaction to the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshirecame to fruition in Southern California Tuesday, when two parishes announced they were leaving the ...
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Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church face a wrenching decision in the next few days on whether to issue a clear-cut ban on allowing people in gay relationships to be bishops and on blessing same-sex unions.
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An Anglican Communion report released yesterday urged those involved in last year&#39;s consecration of an openly gay Episcopal Church bishop in New Hampshire to apologize
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The head of the Episcopal Church asked church members for patience Tuesday after fellow Anglican leaders demanded the U.S. denomination step back from its support of gays or risk losing its full membership in the world Anglican fellowship.
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Episcopal delegates asked church leaders Wednesday to &quot;exercise restraint&quot; when considering openly gay candidates for bishop, a vote that ended days of painful debate but fell far short of demands to preserve Anglican unity by banning gay bishops.
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Seven conservative Anglican archbishops said they refused to take part in a key church ceremony with the head of the U.S. branch of the church on Friday in protest at her support for gay clergy.
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A report criticizing the US Episcopal Church&#39;s consecration of a gay bishop has drawn mixed feelings among some Episcopal churches in Lower Bucks.
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LONDON Oct. 18, 2004 - An Anglican church commission sharply criticized the US Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the Americans to apologize or risk losing some of their influence with sister churches worldwide.
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WEST NEW YORK, New Jersey  - Excommunicated African Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo ordained two married clergymen as priests on Sunday, defying the Vatican over the controversial issue of celibacy within the priesthood.
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Conservative American Anglicans opposed   to the ordination of gay clergy must break away from their   liberal colleagues in order to be recognized by traditionalists   in the developing world, a bishops group said.