Gay Episcopal Bishop Is in Alcoholism Treatment
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From Times Wire Reports
The Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, is being treated for alcoholism, a step that surprised friends and colleagues but seemed unlikely to threaten his position in the church.
Robinson, whose 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire caused a furor in worldwide Anglicanism, wrote in an e-mail to clergy that he had checked himself in for treatment Feb. 1.
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