Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Congregation won't budge on church

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/EarlyEdition/article_view.cfm?recordID=8481&publishdate=01/22/2008

[The Press Democrat] 23 Jan 2008--The Petaluma congregation that split from the Episcopal Church over the issue of homosexuality, taking a landmark downtown church with it, has rejected an offer to return the building, and the two sides appear headed to court, a local vestry member said Monday.

The impasse between St. John's Anglican Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California grew from the national schism that began with the ordination of a gay bishop in New Hampshire in 2003 and church support for same-sex unions.

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