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Lesbian bishop-elect faces Episcopal review: Confirmation process ahead

Since becoming the first lesbian to be elected a bishop in the Epis copal Church, Mary Glasspool has been hailed as a gay rights pioneer and maligned as the straw that will finally break the back of the Anglican Com munion.

Glasspool “wavered two or three times” before agreeing to be nominated as an assistant bishop in Los Angeles, she said in an interview December 9. But friends and spiritual counselors reminded her to follow her own preaching.