Dr. Kendall Harmon addresses Episcopalian celebrants in Durham, N.H. during a service in protest against the consecration of Bishop V. Gene Robinson. (AP)
Bishop Gene Robinson. (AP)
Groups React to Gay Bishop Consecration Story aired: Monday, November 03, 2003
There was thundering choral music and a standing ovation, as well as protests and the threat of schism, as the Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop yesterday in New Hampshire.
The elevation of the Reverend Gene Robinson will be viewed as a victory by many gay and lesbian Christians, but it infuriates many conservative Christians.
The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the 70 million member worldwide Anglican Communion, and today church leaders in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda moved to distance themselves from the New Hampshire diocese.
