Chicago: Sexuality issues divide area Episcopalians

By Nancy Gier
1/11/2009

Ethan Jewett comes from a Jewish family, but his partner Michael Bansley was raised Roman Catholic.

"He told me to find an Episcopal Church or we were going back to the Catholic Church," Jewett said.

The couple was living in Schaumburg at the time (they now live in Chicago) and Jewett discovered during an online search that St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Elk Grove Village had an AIDS Ministry.

"For us, that was code that we had found a welcoming place, affirming for us as a couple," Jewett said. They joined the church in 2004.
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