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...three-page letter addressed to the bishops at the meeting in Panama of the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops at the end of September, Bishop E. Otis Charles wrote, "For the past several months, I have openly communicated with my family and growing numbers of my colleagues and friends that...
...first time that a bishop in a mainline American denomination has admitted publicly that...
Although Charles said he first realized he was gay in 1976, he said he felt that his responsibilities to the diocese of Utah, where he is formerly a bishop, and as the dean of the Episcopal Divinity School prevented him from announcing it earlier in his life...
Charles led the Utah diocese from 1971 to 1986. Bishop George E. Bates, current Episcopal leader of Utah, urged the people of Utah to "treat him with the same love and grace with which he treated us all here...
Also, I do need to admit that I am a little concerned about your increased use of stereotypes. We talked about this during our last tete-a-tete, and after just reading your Harvard thesis on Elizabeth Bishop, I need to say that you certainly avoided ludicrous caricatures there, so I know you can do it (I know, I know, I can hear you saying now, "But Elizabeth Bishop will never sell!!" and of course, Katie darling, you are right as usual. But still, exaggerating to such a degree can be so gauche...