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so same sex couples can cross-insure one another? if they are not recognized as a couple though, can the state step in and claim the insurance payout? i had sort of understood that that was the issue...without explicit legal documentation, the same sex spouse could be denied access to their SO''s estate.

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Anglican leaders ask U.S., Canadian churches to withdraw temporarily

Last Updated Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:40:44 EST

CBC News

LONDON - The leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion are calling on the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada to withdraw from the communion's councils temporarily over homosexual issues.

Bishop Gene Robinson, the bishop of New Hampshire, lives openly with a male partner. (File photo)

Primates from the communion, which is made up of 38 national churches and 77 million members, announced their decision Thursday in a statement after meetings in Northern Ireland.

Conservatives in the communion have criticized both churches for allowing blessings of same-sex marriages.

A commission for the global church issued a report last October that specifically condemned the decision by the diocese in New Westminster, B.C. to sanction same-sex unions.

Some conservative priests reacted by breaking away from the current Canadian leadership of the Anglican Church. The report urged a moratorium on gay unions.

The most divisive controversy in the communion's history, however, arose after the U.S. church elected the first openly gay Anglican bishop last August in New Hampshire.

The statement issued Thursday asks the U.S. and Canadian churches to justify their positions at a meeting in Nottingham, England in June.

"In the meantime, we ask our fellow primates to use their best influence to persuade their brothers and sisters to exercise a moratorium on public rites of blessing for same-sex unions and on the consecration of any bishop living in a sexual relationship outside Christian marriage," the statement said.

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Revenge of the (mainly) Africans here, whose numbers are beginning to dwarf those of British and North American Anglicans. Some irony, as I hear, lies in the shifts in people's compassion - the Bishop of Nigeria taking one of his many limos to work, down from his huge palace through all the slums, while the Primate in Canada takes the TTC. What was that thing about absolute power corrupting absolutely?

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"Sighting his insight into god's will the pope announced today that he will be jumping the snake river canyon in exactly the same place where legendary stuntman Evel Knievel failed to do so in 1974.

"where the Evil has failed, god's will... she shall prevail" was the only other official statement released by the pontiff in connection to this story, although some sources close to the vatican have claimed to hear the 264th leader of the Roman Catholic Church speaking to archbishops saying that, "we should fill the gorge with the faggots, set it on fire and the jump it".

If sucessfull, it would be the first time that his holiness has moved faster than 10 miles an hour since a case of explosive diahria in 1997".

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