Same-sex ceasefire ends for Anglican Church
Jennifer Green
The Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, May 20, 2006
CREDIT: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen

Rev. George Sinclair calls it 'tragic' that it looks like the church's battle is about Linda Privitera.

It was not supposed to be like this, not for anyone.Linda Privitera had been looking forward to practising her calling as an Anglican priest and living in peace with her spouse, Melissa Haussman.

Desiree Stedman had been looking forward to a peaceful retirement, recalling with contentment 19 years of service to the nurturing church she had grown up in.

Instead, both women have found themselves embroiled in a churchwide dispute over same-sex unions, and, more to the point, what it means to be Christian. the rest