Gene Robinson, gay bishop, enters rehab for alcoholism

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Gay Episcopal Bishop Enters Alcohol Rehab

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bishop-Rehab.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:09 a.m. ET

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- In an e-mail written from a treatment center, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, said he is receiving treatment for alcoholism.

For years, Robinson said in the e-mail sent to clergy, he considered it ''a failure of will or discipline on my part, rather than a disease over which my particular body simply has no control, except to stop drinking altogether.''

The news, made public Tuesday, caught many Episcopalians by surprise. Robinson, 58, said he checked into the undisclosed center Feb. 1 with the support of his partner, daughters and colleagues.

''I never saw it in any way impact his ministry in the diocese,'' said Robinson's assistant, the Rev. Tim Rich.

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1. Too many people think an alcoholic...

...is a fall down drunk. But often, addictions are well-hidden and merely nursed, habitually. It doesn't even have to be regular. It can be the need to binge drink during times of stress, or a compulsion to aquire a nightly light buzz. I hope he's able to overcome and deal with it.

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2. Dupe.

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