Church divided: Disagreements, international issues fracturing congregations

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[Montgomery Advertiser] 13 Apr 2007--More and more congregations are finding themselves divided. The issues range from administrative and financial, like those at Old Elam, to the ordination of women as bishops or the consecration of an openly gay Episcopalian bishop.

It was the gay bishop issue that drove Doug McCurry to leave Christ the Redeemer Episcopal Church and start the Legacy Anglican Church.