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| Fifty-eight Episcopal bishops from around the country participated in the blessing of Bishop V. Gene Robinson (center kneeling) on Sunday. The ceremony made him the first-ever openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion amid protests and threats of a schism within the denomination and the larger, worldwide Anglican Communion. (AP photo) |
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floor where feces have been deposited. It is not uncommon for a homosexual
person to declaw and defang a mouse or other rodent to be inserted into the
colon.”
More than 200 pro-gay demonstrators turned out for the ceremony. Officials
noted that there were roughly 25 anti-gay protesters.
The newly appointed Anglican commission, chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames
from Ireland, is poised to report on the crisis in the church by the end of
September 2004. They will study Robinson’s selection and the blessings
given to same-sex couples by the Canadian dioceses of New Westminster in British
Columbia.
According to London’s Daily Telegraph, the body will also set up a new
mechanism for collective decision making, possibly by granting new powers to
Williams.
Solheim said that was completely speculative and added that he would be “surprised
if Williams was granted new powers.”
“There’s no practical way that it can be done,” Solheim
said. “He is the archbishop of all. He can admonish or plead but to give
him any authority beyond that would not be a very welcoming sign. Additionally,
for any change in his role, it would have to be approved by all 38-member churches.”
In an interview this week on NBC’s “Today” show, Robinson
said that the church will “have a few bumpy years but it is not anything
we should be afraid of.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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