Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Orthodox rolled over at Annual Convention: "We got taken to the cleaners," said an orthodox priest

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2499

[Virtue Online] May 23, 2005--The 162nd annual diocesan convention of the Diocese of Florida was closed to the press. This reporter was planning on attending but was told by Communications Director Paul Van Brunt that all outside media were being banned from the event. The word had come down from Bishop John Howard that only the diocesan news person would be present presumably to keep a tight rein on what was said and to spin it the diocese, ECUSA and the world. A reporter with The Times-Union did manage to get inside the Cerveny Conference Center in Live Oak, and watched it on television from an overflow sitting where the one-day conference was being held and he reported on what took place as people left the floor of convention.

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