It took two years of screening before New Jersey's controversial Bishop John Spong approved J. Robert Williams, 34, as the first Episcopal man to be ordained a priest while openly living in a gay relationship. It took six weeks for the bishop to decide the ordination was a big mistake. Williams has now been forced out of his job at a gay ministry while the diocese investigates whether he misrepresented his moral beliefs.
Williams' downfall resulted from his remarks at a Detroit symposium on gay marriages: "Monogamy is as unnatural as celibacy. If people want to try, O.K., but the fact...
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