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September 07 2005 By virtueonline NORTHWEST TEXAS: Bishop Misinforms People about Financial State of Diocese

Ohl pointed an accusing finger at St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, an orthodox parish and the diocese' largest, after most of its members fled the Episcopal Church over the consecration of V. Gene Robinson, an avowed homosexual to the episcopacy. St. Nicholas had 500 members with 400 active and a budget of nearly $500,000. The apportionment to the diocese is over $100,000. Their five year old building is valued at $3.5 million.

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August 30 2005 By virtueonline AUSTIN, TX: Episcopal High School Promotes Gay Sex Book

VirtueOnline received a letter written by one irate contributor Mr. Cary McNair, son of Bob McNair, owner of the Houston Texans, who threatened to withhold a significant amount of money if the school did not pull the book from the classroom. A VirtueOnline source said the amount was in excess of $3 million.

The McNair's (Cary and Kate) wrote the Board of Trustees of St. Andrew's School (SAS) on August 17 concerning their support of the school.

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August 27 2005 By virtueonline AFRICANS STALL WESTERN ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE PANSEXUALITY AGENDA INTO AFRICA

Other African archbishops including Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola and Kenyan Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi will not only not entertain homosexuality in their provinces, the latter has called for the expulsion of ECUSA from the global communion and Akinola recently said the Church of England should be suspended from the communion.

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August 25 2005 By virtueonline THE HIGH LIFE OF FLORIDA BISHOP SAMUEL JOHNSON HOWARD

The purchase of a home valued at more than $1 million dollars was done with significant amounts of the monies obtained from private sources through an alleged housing trust. The initial purchase price was $850,000 with an additional $105,000 spent for improvements. The diocese placed no lien on the home for the money.

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August 21 2005 By virtueonline PUTTING THE SCREWS TO THE ORTHODOX

"The matter will immediately be appealed," said the bishop. Of course it will. "Although we are disappointed in the court's conclusion, this is simply an initial step in a long process," said John R. Shiner, chancellor of the diocese and its lead attorney in the property matter. "We believe the court's order was clearly in error, and indeed takes the law to a new level not supported by precedent.

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August 18 2005 By virtueonline THE FICTIONAL WORLD OF FRANK GRISWOLD

It is hard to know what world Frank Griswold "inhabits" to use a favorite word of his, or if he had suddenly stumbled onto a live televangelist healing show while flipping channels, and when invited to place his hands on the TV screen for healing had been zapped by something resembling the Holy Ghost.

Denial according to Daniel Webster's definition is a disowning or disavowal of reality. Denial is not letting yourself know what reality is; it is lying to yourself.

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August 16 2005 By virtueonline TOLERANCE AND TRUTH IN AN INTOLERANT CHURCH

Furthermore people are starting to believe that something is rotten in the state of Denmark and it is not the smell of an acrid aristocracy, but an array of spiritually dead men and women dressed in purple who are leading them away from the one true gospel and toward a universalist 'faith' that is neither salvific nor truthful to the faith once delivered to the saints.

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August 13 2005 By virtueonline THE CHURCH OF IRELAND: An Inside Look at a Church in Turmoil

THE CHURCH OF IRELAND is composed of twelve dioceses, each with a single bishop (there are no suffragans or assistants in Ireland). The Church, which was disestablished in 1871, is unashamedly an all-Ireland body with several of the dioceses straddling either side of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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August 12 2005 By virtueonline GODLY LAYMAN LAYS IT ON THE LINE EVEN IN DEATH

On August 4 he penned a letter to Bishop John Howard and to all the clergy in the Diocese of Florida.

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August 09 2005 By virtueonline PEACE AND JUSTICE, BUT FOR WHOM?

But how this should be done is another matter entirely. The Episcopal Church along with the Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ have all urged consideration of divestment, at a very minimum economic pressure urging Israel to be more accommodating to the Palestinians, many of whom are Christians.

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