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I was happy to see that Poppy Bush is progressive enough to belong to a religion that is not afraid to elect an openly gay man as bishop. Dubya was born an Episcopalian but is now rejoicing that he is a Methodist.

Anglicans pick openly gay man to be bishop


STAFF, WIRE REPORT- Lexington Herald-Leader

A Lexington native has been elected the first openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, a step likely to set off fierce debate in the United States and England and deepen the disaffection of the more conservative Anglican churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson, 56, was voted Saturday as the bishop-coadjutor, or bishop-elect, in the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire.

Robinson, who has been an assistant to the current bishop for 16 years, was elected on the second ballot from a field of four candidates. The election was at St. Paul's Church in Concord, N.H
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