First openly gay Episcopal bishop scripture evader and homosexual promoter to divorce his ‘husband’
NEW HAMPSHIRE, – The first openly gay bishop the Episcopal Church , whose election in 2003 helped split the squabbling denomination in two, has announced that he and his homosexual partner of more than a quarter-century are divorcing. They were "married" in 2010 after participating in the state's civil union laws in 2008. According to Vicky Gene Robinson , who retired as a bishop in 2013 and is currently a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress , "it takes two people to make a marriage and two people to make a divorce." But Robinson said that despite the legal separation, he "will be forever grateful to [Mark]" for "standing by me through the challenges of the last decade." Bishop Gene Robinson The divorce was the bishop's second – Robinson was married to a woman for 14 years . Homosexual activists have responded to the news of the high-profile dissolution by saying that homosexual and heterosexual marriage...