McGreevey Makes a Leap Of Faith

Not for being gay, but because former NJ gov is 'a jackass'

(NEWSER) - Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who resigned in 2004 after acknowledging he is a "gay American," had his eye on a new job—but so far it's not working out. McGreevey tried to join the priesthood, but the Episcopal Church rejected him, the New York Post reports. "It was not being gay but for being a jackass" that he was rejected, says a source with the diocese, noting that McGreevey " didn't come out of the whole divorce looking good ." More»

After 5-year custody battle, NJ dad detours on return home from Brazil

(NEWSER) - David Goldman, who was reunited with his son today in Brazil after a 5-year custody battle, has returned to the US with the boy—but to Orlando rather than their home state of New Jersey. A jet chartered by Dateline landed shortly after 6 today, reports WESH, the local NBC affiliate. David and Sean Goldman's destination wasn't made public, which suggests NBC is eager to keep its exclusive story exclusive, the Sentinel notes. More»

David Goldman's custody battle ends in Brazil

(NEWSER) - David Goldman, the New Jersey man fighting for five years to gain custody of the son taken to Brazil by his mother, was reunited with him today. Sean Goldman, 9, was brought to the US consulate in advance of a 9am deadline by his maternal grandmother and stepfather, but the scene wasn’t all happy: He cried as he came in though the scrum of journalists in front of the consulate, and his grandmother called it “a very difficult moment," the AP reports. Guards had to violently push back photographers and TV cameramen. More»

Mary Glasspool will head to LA Diocese

(AP) - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles yesterday elected the Rev. Mary Glasspool as its second openly gay bishop, underscoring Episcopal commitment to accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans. "Any group of people who have been oppressed because of any one, isolated aspect of their persons yearns for justice and equal rights," Glasspool said after the vote, thanking the diocese for choosing her. More»

(AP) - Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of US Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province today. The development is the culmination of a five-year rift that erupted when Episcopalians in New Hampshire consecrated the first openly gay bishop. The split represents a new challenge to the already splintering, 77-million-member Anglican fellowship—the world's third largest Christian body—and its spiritual leader, the archbishop of Canterbury. More»