Word: gayness
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...Orleans, the Episcopal House of Bishops made their response to three demands presented by the Communion's leaders last February: that the generally liberal U.S. church accept the Communion input in creating conservative bishops to pastor some of its more disaffected members; that it cease to make any more gay bishops, as it did in 2003 with the Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire; and that it stop blessing same-sex union ceremonies...
...decided he needed a little time to himself before joining the bourgeois lockstep. It is a little difficult to see what's bugging him. His father (William Hurt) is a successful, self-made businessman, who is perhaps a little too sternly conventional in his views. His mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is a perhaps a little too softly so and, yes, there are strains in their marriage. But they are scarcely monsters, and the values they represent, though stodgy, are not exactly oppressive. Plenty of young people have slithered through the cracks in their fa?ade...
...Justice] Anthony Kennedy's approach to gay issues has put him on the liberal side. There have been five votes for gay rights on the court for some time. I expect that will actually continue as long as the court remains...
What would happen if a gay-marriage case made it to the Court...
There's no way this Court is going to say that gay marriage is required by the Constitution. I think they will leave that to the political branches; if the states want to pass gay marriage, let them pass gay marriage. But they're not going to impose...