New York New York – Gay issue may split Church

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[NationNews.com] April 21, 2006--A Bajan cleric in New York City didn't have a vision but his prediction turned out to be a hard bit of reality.

"It is not about the civil rights of gay priests and bishops but the selfishness of one man and his lover," he said on August 6, 2003, the day after the General Convention of the United States Episcopal Church approved the election of the Rt Rev Gene Robinson as the first openly gay bishop of the United States Church.

What the rector of a Brooklyn parish was warning against was that Robinson's pursuit of a bishopric split the Church, which was once the dominant Christian body in the United States, but is now a shell of its former self.