Revelations Prompt Reevaluation of Bishop’s Legacy

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[The Living Church] 3 Mar 2008--The Rt. Rev. Otis Charles, retired Bishop of Utah, wrote the Bishop of New York on March 3, criticizing the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk for perpetuating a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to clergy misconduct. The letter was sent after the daughter of one of Bishop Sisk’s predecessors, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, revealed that her father led a secret life as a bisexual man.

Bishop Moore, who died in 2003, championed a number of progressive social causes, including civil rights, pacifism, and the plight of the poor. He served as Bishop of New York from 1972 to 1989. In her forthcoming memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, excerpted in the March 3 issue of The New Yorker magazine, Honor Moore said it was only after her father died that she fully realized that he had had homosexual relationships. Bishop Moore was the father of nine children.