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Heresy

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Lynn Neary in Wilmington Delaware, where a panel of Episcopal bishops ruled that church doctrine does NOT specifically ban the ordination of non-celebate homosexuals. The ruling means that a retired bishop who ordained a non-celebate gay man in 1990 will NOT have to face a heresy trial. Today's opinion by a special panel of Episcopal bishops did NOT deal with the church's position on the morality of homosexual relationships.

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