For some reason it was a big deal for the Episcopal church to elect
Gene Robinson, a gay man, as bishop. Because, you know, there's never
been a gay bishop before.
When the fossilized conservatives couldn't
scare people with threats of splitting
the Church, they come up with
eleventh hour allegations against
his character.
The more outrageous claim is the fooferall over Robinson's support of OutRight Concord, a gay youth outreach group. The problem? An affiliated site, Outright Portland, had a link to bisexual.org, which in turn ran a banner ad for threepillows.com, a pr0n site. Hopefully the good people of the Episcopal church understand what character assassination is.
Update: sounds like the preliminary
investigation has cleared Robinson of the various allegations. The
confirmation vote is
back on.
Update 2: he was
elected.
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