A bishop's battle: Jon Bruno has been fighting for gays and lesbians in his church for many years. Now he's fighting to hold the church together.(Behind the Headlines)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 26-OCT-04

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Overwhelmingly opposed to the pro-gay stance of Los Angeles Episcopal bishop J. Jon Bruno, leaders of three Southern California churches in August voted to remove themselves from his diocese and from the Episcopal Church. Clergy and congregants at parishes in Long Beach, Newport Beach, and North Hollywood were angered when Bruno supported last year's consecration of art openly gay man, V. Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire, and outranged when Bruno subsequently performed a union ceremony for a gay couple. Now they've asked the bishop of a conservative Anglican diocese in Uganda to govern them, and he has agreed.

But Bruno, a 57-year-old...

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