Episcopal Church funding down 12 percent

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Published: Feb 11, 2005
Modified: Feb 11, 2005 4:13 PM

Episcopal Church funding down 12 percent


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Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, from New York, prepares to open the Episcopal executive council meeting on Friday, Feb. 11, 2005, in Austin, Texas. A new report says giving by local dioceses to the national Episcopal Church dropped roughly $4 million last year - about a 12 percent decline in the first full year after the denomination confirmed its only openly gay bishop.

By BOBBY ROSS JR., ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A new report says giving by local dioceses to the national Episcopal Church dropped roughly $4 million last year - about a 12 percent decline in the first full year after the denomination confirmed its only openly gay bishop.

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But Canon David Anderson, president of the American Anglican Council, a conservative group of Episcopalians, said he expects donations to keep going down in protest of "the liberal revisionists' agenda, which includes a gay agenda."

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Since Robinson was first confirmed by the Episcopal General Convention in August 2003, parishioners and their local leaders upset over the denomination's direction have moved to withhold or limit contributions to the national church in protest.

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