Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese proposes break from church
Leaders advise leaving over liberal policies; fight over buildings, property expected
Monday, October 1, 2007
By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News

Leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth have recommended that it leave the more liberal Episcopal Church, the Anglican body of the United States.

The Episcopal Church faces considerable internal division, including revolt by some dioceses and parishes, over allowing an openly gay bishop and not forbidding the blessing of same-sex unions.
The Fort Worth diocese's standing committee – a key panel of clergy and lay leaders – proposed Monday that the diocese withdraw from the Episcopal Church and affiliate with another province of the worldwide Anglican Communion. the rest