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Fresno, Calif.

Priests booted: The U.S. Episcopal Church has ousted 61 clergy members allied with a bishop who opposed the church’s relaxed stand on homosexuality. The ousted priests and deacons are followers of former Bishop John-David Schofield, whose San Joaquin County diocese seceded from the church in 2007, in protest against the ordination of Gene Robinson, an avowed homosexual, as a bishop in New Hampshire. Schofield was defrocked by the U.S. Episcopal Church, but formed a breakaway denomination affiliated with the Anglican Church in Argentina. The decision to cut ties with the clergy members was “heartbreaking,” said Bishop Jerry Lamb, Schofield’s replacement. “But the fact is, they chose to abandon their relationship with the Episcopal Church.” Schofield maintains he is still an Anglican bishop under the worldwide church.

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