From NPR-Bishop Gene Robinson says he and his husband, Mark Andrew, are getting a divorce. The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Robinson retired last year, a decade after his election alienated many conservative Anglicans.
The pair had been together for 25 years. Robinson disclosed the divorce this weekend, in an email to the Diocese of New Hampshire and in a column for The Daily Beast in which he wrote:
"My belief in marriage is undiminished by the reality of divorcing someone I have loved for a very long time, and will continue to love even as we separate. Love can endure, even if a marriage cannot. It will take a lot of work, a lot of grieving, and a large measure of hope to see it through. And that's where my faith comes in."
"Life is hard," the retired bishop said, "and that is true whether you're in your teens or in your 'golden years.' "
More here-
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/04/309551778/first-openly-gay-episcopal-bishop-announces-divorce
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