New Gay Challenges For Episcopal Church

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http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/012606episcopal.htm

The Episcopal Church named a slate of four candidates Wednesday to be its new leader, a group that includes the first female nominee for the post and one candidate who opposed the consecration of the denomination's first openly gay bishop.

The candidates for presiding bishop are Bishops Katharine Jefferts Schori of Las Vegas; J. Neil Alexander of Atlanta; Edwin (Ted) Gulick Jr. of Louisville, Ky.; and Henry N. Parsley Jr. of Birmingham, Ala.

The new presiding bishop, who succeeds the retiring Frank Griswold, is scheduled to be elected June 18 during the church's General Convention for a term extending to 2015.

Parsley is the only nominee who voted against approval of V. Gene Robinson to be New Hampshire's bishop at the 2003 General Convention. However, none of the nominees participated in the consecration ritual that made Robinson a bishop.