Religion

However, being an Episcopalian myself, I felt the need to relate a similar experience from my parish

We went through a huge rift back in the days when the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire ordained a gay Bishop. We're in Georgia, so the happenings of the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire would seem to have little to do with us. The rector of our parish at the time had a different opinion, however. He was very upset about the ordination of the Bishop in New Hampshire--so much so that he established an Anglican Church in a town that's in the same county as ours. When he left, most of our congregation left with him, including some people who had been members of our parish long before he got there. His last Sunday there, we had over 100 members in attendance. On his first Sunday at his new church, we had 13 people for that day's service.

Time has past since then and our parish seems to be back to something resembling normalcy. For what it's worth, our current rector is gay...and no one is upset about it.