Prominent N.Va. Anglican church says priest fired after surfing porn sites

By Michelle Boorstein and William Wan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, January 8, 2011

A longtime priest at one of the country's largest and most prominent conservative Anglican churches has been fired for repeatedly using a church computer to surf for pornography, an official at the Fairfax City church said.

The Rev. Marshall Brown was associate rector at Truro Church, whose clergy members helped lead 14 Virginia parishes to break away from the Episcopal Church after the 2003 election of the denomination's first openly gay bishop.

With more than 1,200 members, Truro was one of the biggest parishes in the Episcopal Church, the American province of Anglicanism.  the rest