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Originally posted by Yorick:
The Episcopal/Anglican Church has no connection to the Pope however. It is part of the "Church of England" founded when Henry XIII of England decided to ignore the Popes refusals to marry him to his second? wife. So the English Church broke away, experienced some reforms and spread into the English speaking world. It became the "Anglican Church" everywhere but America where is is called "Episcopal" and I believe Scotland, which calls it the "Church of Scotland"
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I'm sorry Hugh - I just can't resist this. Did I fall asleep and miss 5 Kings of England called Henry??? Or did you miv up your Roman numerals?
BTW - just to add to the fire, the gay Bishop has two children from his marriage.
And - just to add a secular twist. The Episcopal Church were last night expected to approve the drafting of a church service to bless homosexual couples. This is in direct defiance of Bush's announcement last week that he was against all forms of gay marriage and that he had asked Federal lawyers to explore ways of changing the Constitution to outlaw the practice throughout America.
Yes - read it again "change the Consitution" what would the Founding Fathers have to say about that? The same Constitution that is set in stone to allow shooty things is actually somewhat malleable when dealing with a few poofs.