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...veto override and the House is only about 30 votes shy of the same goal, evidence that the bill is making headway. "In January of this year, we picked up 16 votes in the House, two of which were pro-life Democrats who switched from no to yes," she says. "If he wants, [Bush] can continue to refuse to support this, in which case it'll become an election issue...
...plugging along. He is "hopeful," he told Time, but not "absolutely confident" that the whole structure of Anglicanism can be kept together. And if it should fall apart around his shoulders, leaving him standing in the rubble of his calling? Would he be able to sustain the blow? "Well, yes," Williams said, and then took a long pause. "Yes. Because I trust my God and I believe that whatever mistakes I make and whatever disasters may occur, there is always grace...
...bishops: that they stop ordaining gay bishops and blessing gay unions and that they create a special bishop to serve the needs of conservatives. What happens if they refuse? An absolute blanket no to all of this would pose a real problem. We've had indications of a cautious yes to part...
...yourself once thought it possible that same-sex relationships might be legitimate in God's eyes. Yes, I argued that in 1987. I still think that the points I made there and the questions I raised were worth making as part of the ongoing discussion. I'm not recanting. But those were ideas put forward as part of a theological discussion. I'm now in a position where I'm bound to say the teaching of the Church is this, the consensus is this. We have not changed our minds corporately. It's not for me to exploit my position...
...Delegates chatted over tea, coffee or 12-year-old Aberfeldy, discussing only one thing: India. Rekhi opened his speech by demanding that the E.U. redefine whisky to accommodate molasses-derived brands. "There should be no definitional barriers based on geography or substrates," he says. "Whisky cannot ring-fence itself." Yes it can--and should--according to rebuttals from the scotch side. "Rules are there to protect consumers," said Mike Keiller, CEO of Morrison Bowmore. "I would have grave difficulty for something called Indian whisky made that way to sit alongside my Bowmore...