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SPLITSVILLE: Gene Robinson and Partner Announce Divorce
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 3, 2014
Gene Robinson, the former Bishop of New Hampshire, and his partner Mark Andrew have split up.
The two were married in a private civil union ceremony on June 12, 2008. The ceremony was performed in Concord, N.H., by Justice of the Peace Ronna Wise followed by a "Blessing" of the relationship at St. Paul Church.
In a note to the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops, Robinson wrote, “It is time to share with you, our HOB family, that my partner and husband of 25+ years, Mark, and I have decided to be divorced. As you can imagine, this is a difficult time for us -- not a decision entered into lightly or without much counseling.”
At the last General convention in July 2012 in Indianapolis, Robinson cried "foul" when a VOL reporter asked about reports that there was trouble in paradise. In the House of Bishops he shot back, "I have no intention of responding to that e-mail. It is nobody's damn business."
From several sources, Virtue Online came into possession of information that the New Hampshire Episcopal bishop's marital relationship with his same-sex partner maybe on the rocks.
Bishop Robinson willingly and joyfully parades his gay lifestyle, zipping all over the country in whole-hearted support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender agenda.
Now he pleads, “I'm sure that you will understand the private nature of this change in our lives and our commitment to keeping those details appropriately private.”
Ah, no. What you do in public remains in public.
The only question now is will he do with Andrew what he did with his first wife (a woman) and go to back to a church and un marry him by exchanging rings and holding a faux Eucharist?
In his note to the HOB, Robinson did ask that “the love and care for each other that has characterized our relationship for a quarter century will continue in the difficult days ahead.” Most unlikely.
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