{"id":4205,"date":"2010-03-19T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2017-11-19T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T15:36:46","slug":"episcopal-church-usa-approves-lesbian-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/episcopal-church-usa-approves-lesbian-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Church USA approves lesbian bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington, DC\u2014<\/strong>A controversial candidate for bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church has received the necessary approval, according to the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Following her December election, the Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool of Baltimore needed to obtain consent from a majority of bishops and diocesan standing committees.<\/p>\n<p>Glasspool will become the first partnered openly lesbian bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion if she is installed as scheduled on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>After the partnered openly homosexual Gene Robinson was installed as Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, bodies of the worldwide Anglican Communion warned the Episcopal Church not to repeat the action. It observed a moratorium on consecration of non-celibate homosexual bishops for a time, but lifted the moratorium at last year\u2019s General Convention. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101207035539\/http:\/\/christiannewswire.com\/news\/4732313347.html\">Click here to read further.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to Dissident Lutherans forming new denomination\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=4109\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dissident Lutherans forming new denomination<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press Washington, DC\u2014A controversial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,45],"tags":[2932,282,2919],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","category-signs-of-the-times","tag-homosexuality","tag-episcopal-church","tag-signs-of-the-times","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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