Get Religion blog: About that bisexual-bishop story (update)
Posted by tmatt
Monday, March 3, 2008

As you might expect, I would like to make a few comments about “The Bishop’s Daughter,” the buzz-provoking piece in The New Yorker by the poet Honor Moore about the double life lived by her father, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr., the trailblazing liberal leader of the Diocese of New York from 1972-89.

However, until the magazine elects — we can only hope — to post the full article online, we can only link to a secondary form of revealed wisdom, a news report on the subject printed in the New York Times.

Conservative Anglicans will gag on the headline, “A Bishop Unveiled God’s Secrets While Keeping His Own,” but let’s set that aside for the moment. There is no question that Bishop Moore was one of the most important voices in the history of the U.S. Episcopal Church, especially as the modern patriarch of a powerful family in New York church circles and the city’s liberal establishment.
the rest