Word: stopfel
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE: A nine-bishop panel is meeting to determine whether retired Bishop Walter Righter should be tried for heresy for his ordaining Barry Stopfel,a non-celibate gay, as a deacon. The debate centers on whether the Episcopal church has any sort of doctrine on sexual morality. A decision is expected sometime this week, but for the church, any decision will have serious implications. "The church is in a real lose-lose situation here," says Religion correspondent Richard Ostling. "On the one side, they have a large contingent of conservatives who are morally opposed to ordaining gays or lesbians...
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