And his words do clearly not describe a return to their original paganism, without the name and semblance of Christianity, and a “perspicuous litation to the gods of the Gentiles."

That was nearly twenty years ago, and the Rev. David Norgard, who now serves as rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, has spent much of those two decades quietly cracking the pink ceiling in the Episcopal Church.

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Lastly, I'd like to take my case to the American people on what we call farmly values — family values — [laughter] — not in a contentious sense.