From Hartford-An Episcopal priest from Groton serving as chaplain of the Episcopal Church at Yale University stepped down this month after a furor over a letter he wrote to The New York Times.
The Rev. Bruce Shipman, interviewed Friday at his Groton City home, wrote a letter that appeared in the Times on Aug. 26, in response to an article expressing an opinion about a rise in anti-Semitism.
Within two hours of the publication of the letter, which included a line at the end identifying him as the Episcopal chaplain at Yale, Shipman said, "there was an avalanche of hate mail calling me every name imaginable, and an anti-Semite, [saying] I was a disgrace to my calling and I ought not to be in any public office."
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http://www.courant.com/religion-and-beliefs/hc-day-letter-finishes-groton-episcopal-priest-yal-20140916,0,2480440.story
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