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...Paul's church, the home parish of Gene Robinson, sits in a quiet street in Concord, New Hampshire. On Tuesday evening a small group of his supporters gathered around a television inside to watch the results of the voting to confirm Robinson as their Bishop, the?first openly gay man to hold the office in the history of the Episcopal church.?A technician from a local TV station, there to cover the event, fumbled to hook the TV up to cable. Just before the announcement, it flickered into life...
...rector, Rev. David Jones, stood silently before the screen as the news came that Robinson had won confirmation with the support of 62 of 107 bishops.?He said nothing. Slowly, as the news sunk in, Jones wiped tears away that welled in his eyes. He later told reporters he had spoken to Robinson the night before the vote. "He said," recalled Jones, "'I feel like a little man in a little boat on a big ocean, but I know who is in the boat with...
...Hampshire is a long way from the ocean of controversy that Robinson, 56, has found himself in during his candidacy. His detractors at the House of Bishops conference in Minneapolis argued that the confirmation could split the American Episcopal church. It drew condemnation from many Anglicans worldwide.?Still, New Hampshire Episcopalians have a proud tradition of standing up to conservative traditions. At the height of clashes over civil right in the 1960s, a seminarian from the state was murdered defending a young black woman being threatened by a gunman in Mississippi. Today, while the diocese is made up of only...
...Fixing education is as important as repairing the physical infrastructure," says Joanne Giordano of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is coordinating the purge. "Stuff that's offensive to ethnic and religious groups has got to go." --By Simon Robinson...
...hallmark of both existing communities is the degree to which residents look after one another. "If anyone is sick, someone will bring soup or provide a ride to the doctor or hospital," says Robinson, a retired elementary school principal. When North recently had cataract surgery, at least six neighbors called to see how they could help. At the Fort Myers-area village, 90 miles away, native Chicagoans Jill Schwartz, 61, and her partner of 29 years Annie O'Dowd, 74, were drawn by the promise of a good support system as much as the sunshine. "We were never activists," says...