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...took two years of screening before New Jersey's controversial Bishop John Spong approved J. Robert Williams, 34, as the first Episcopal man to be ordained a priest while openly living in a gay relationship. It took six weeks for the bishop to decide the ordination was a big mistake. Williams has now been forced out of his job at a gay ministry while the diocese investigates whether he misrepresented his moral beliefs...
...what we're doing and we're not." Having thus dismissed the traditional concept of Christian marriage, Williams told a questioner in rather crude terms that Mother Teresa of Calcutta would be better off if she had had sex. All that was too much even for Bishop Spong, who also wants to overturn Judeo-Christian sexual limitations but encourages "committed" relationships, gay or straight, with lifelong monogamy as the ideal...
...right. Virginians not only voted 69% for Nixon in 1972, but also replaced popular moderate Democratic Senator William B. Spong Jr. with conservative Republican William L. Scott, leaving the congressional delegation with eight Republicans, three Democrats and one Independent...
...Richard Nixon won close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...
Scott had friends, however. One lent him $200,000 for a last-minute media blitz. Scott challenged Spong to say which presidential candidate he backed; Spong was damaged politically when a newsman reported having heard him tell some students that he was for Senator McGovern...