Saturday, January 8, 2011

Prominent N.Va. Anglican church says priest fired after surfing porn sites


From The Washington Post-

A longtime priest at one of the country's largest and most prominent conservative Anglican churches has been fired for repeatedly using a church computer to surf for pornography, an official at the Fairfax City church said.

The Rev. Marshall Brown was associate rector at Truro Church, whose clergy members helped lead 14 Virginia parishes to break away from the Episcopal Church after the 2003 election of the denomination's first openly gay bishop.

With more than 1,200 members, Truro was one of the biggest parishes in the Episcopal Church, the American province of Anglicanism.

Truro's rejection of what its congregants saw as a non-biblical, liberal tilt in the denomination made international news. Dozens of Episcopal churches have since joined an umbrella group of religious conservatives who oppose the acceptance of same-sex relationships and the idea that non-Christian religions have equal access to God.

More here

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010706477.html

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