Deadlock looms over response to gay cleric
Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent in Columbus, Ohio
Friday June 16, 2006

The American Episcopal Church appeared to be heading for deadlock at its general convention in Ohio tonight as it discussed how to appease the rest of the Anglican world over its election of a gay bishop.

This weekend will see a vital moment in the life of 77 million-strong worldwide Anglican communion as members of the US church, sister to the Church of England, effectively debate whether they wish to remain within the communion or not. the rest