Conservatives create rival group to U.S. Episcopal Church

Thursday, December 4, 2008

NEW YORK -- Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.

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