Bishop Explains Ousting of Gay Episcopal Bishop

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Church's Diocese of California says he suspended a retired Episcopal bishop of Utah from clergy functions because he broke Bishop Swing's directive when he spoke publicly about entering a same-sex marriage.

"I said, don't use the word 'marriage,' and don't talk to the press," Bishop Swing recalled Monday. He suspended Bishop Otis Charles when the San Francisco Chronicle published Bishop Charles' account of the April wedding to Felipe Sanchez Paris. Bishop Charles led the Utah diocese of the church from 1971 to 1986.

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Bishop Explains Ousting of Gay Episcopal Bishop

Bishop Charles is the first Episcopal bishop known to marry a same-se...

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