Bishop Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark
Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where he served for
nine years before retiring in 2012. Robinson would not disclose details about
the end of their 25-year relationship but wrote Sunday in The Daily Beast he
owed a debt to Andrew “for standing by me through the challenges of the last
decade.”
“It is at least a small comfort to me, as
a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage,
gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships
that afflict marriages between heteros*xual couples,” Robinson wrote. “All of
us sincerely intend, when we take our wedding vows, to live up to the ideal of
’till death do us part. But not all of us are able to see this through until
death indeed parts us.”
ABC news says Robinson declined to comment
further Sunday to The Associated Press.
Robinson has never been fully accepted
within the more than 70 million-member Anglican Communion, which is rooted in
the Church of England represented in the United States by the Episcopal Church.
Bishop Robinson, 66, had been married to a
woman and had two children before he and his wife divorced. He and Andrew had
been partners for more than a decade when Robinson was elected to lead the New
Hampshire Diocese. The two men were joined in a 2008 civil union in New
Hampshire, which became a legal marriage when the state recognized gay marriage
two years later.
“My belief in marriage is undiminished by
the reality of divorcing someone I have loved for a very long time, and will
continue to love even as we separate,” Robinson wrote. “Love can endure, even
if a marriage cannot.”
It should be noted earlier this week Dr.
Barry Morgan, the Anglican Archbishop of Wales said of the church’s views on
homos*xuality , “views have evolved and changed” on the nature of marriage “a
subject which Jesus pronounced very clearly, therefore, it can also change its
teaching on homos*xuality ”
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