Court Holds Hearing to Determine Church Doctrine on Ordination of Gays
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Episcopal News Service
Arguing for the defense in Bishop Walter Righter trial.
In courtroom art, Michael Rehill of the Diocese of Newark, attorney for Bishop Walter Righter, addresses the Court for the
Trial of a Bishop during a one-day hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, February 27, on whether the Episcopal Church holds a
doctrine against the ordination of non-celibate homosexuals. Righter is charged with holding false doctrine and violating his
ordination vows for ordaining a non-celibate homosexual as a deacon in 1990 and signing documents advocating such ordinations.
Cameras were not permitted in the coutroom while the court was in session. (Courtroom art by Susan Schary, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. For use by Episcopal publications only.)
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