http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-episcopal0603.artjun04,0,977475.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
[Hartford Courant] 4 June 2007--When Fred Clark married his bride, Claudia, nearly 40 years ago, they stood before the deep blue and purple stained-glass windows that line the stone wall behind the altar at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bristol.
Together they baptized three babies, mourned the death of one of those children - 6-year-old Allison - and celebrated the marriage of another daughter at that same altar.
The church is far more than a place to worship for the Clarks, of course. It is like a second home.But the Clarks - along with the vast majority of the congregation - have decided to risk their long association with Trinity by voting to split from the Episcopal Church over differences of opinion about Scripture that have manifested themselves in public squabbles over the ordination of gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions....
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