The Saturday Star devoted almost all of page 3 to this article, along with two large photos. It has an inverse headline reading "A Priest on Trial" which I assume has identified stories throughout the proceedings, and a regular headline "Fight will continue, gay priest vows" The largest picture is of Ferry, looking sincere, and there is a smaller one of Finlay looking stodgily into the middle distance with some unnactractive lectern, unidentified clergyman and big picture of someone in robes all cluttering up the picture. It's really not flattering. The caption is between the two pictures and reads "LICENCE REMOVED: Anglican priest James Ferry, above, prepares to attend a Bishop's Court that revoked his licence yesterday for disobeying an order by Toronto Bishop Terence Finlay, right, that Ferry leave a homosexual relationship. A sidebar headed What They Said has two quotes: I am sort of the official gay Anglican. I am probably one of the most out-of-the-closet gay people in Canada right now -- Rev. James Ferry The choice is now Mr. Ferry's and I sincerely hope he will seek to discuss the matter with me soon. -- Anglican Bishop Terence Finlay Here's the actual article: Homosexual Anglican priest James Ferry may have lost a battle -- but he says the struggle continues. "There is no way I can drop this matter and walk away from it," Ferry, 39, told The Star after Toronto's Anglican bishop announced he was withdrawing the priest's licence. "I am sort of the official gay Anglican. I am probably one of the most out-of-the-closet gay people in Canada right now." Ferry said that of several options, making a human-rights complaint against the bishop and the diocese appears the most appropriate. "the way things are going my gut feeling is it would be appropriate at this point to go to the human rights avenue in light of the fact that bishops, for over a decade, have advocated that government protect gay persons under civil law," he said. "But I am going to check things out pretty thoroughly before I make a decision." Last July, Toronto Bishop Terence Finlay removed Ferry from his job as rector of Unionville's St Philip's-on-the-Hill. Ferry told Finlay he was in a sexual relationship with another man. It was Ferry's refusal to leave the relationship that lead to the firing, Finlay said, because the relationship contravened church discipline and standards adopted by Canadian bishops. Yesterday. Finlay told reporters a Bishop's Court has found the priest guilty of "wrongdoing by refusing to refrain from continuing a homosexual relationship contrary to the bishop's instructions, Mr. Ferry's vows on ordination and he discipline of the church." Based on the court's verdict and recommendations, Finlay said he had removed Ferry from the Unionville church, and from excercising his duties as a priest. Under this discipline, while he is still regarded as a priest, Ferry cannot preach, perform marriages, or celebrate other church sacraments. Finlay told a news conference he would consider restoring Ferry's licence to resume the "trust and responsibility" given to a priest if he conforms with his ordination vows and with church discipline. Failing that, Finlay said, Ferry may continue as a priest without a licence until such time as church policy on ordaining practising homosexuals were to change. He added that Ferry's situation will be reviewed annually. Ferry has recieved full pay and benefits since his dismissal last July and will continue to be paid until August, Finlay said. If he is unwilling to adhere to the bishops' guidelines, then a "career planning package" will be offered. "The choice is now Mr. Ferry's and I sincerely hope he will seek to discuss the matter with me soon," Finlay said. However, at a news conference at his lawyer's downtown office, Ferry said that after all he has been through it would be "ridiculous" for him to now make a promise a celibacy. "The church is asking me to stop being who I am," he said. "I cannot stop being who I am... it's the way God made me." Ferry said he had committed only one "crime. I have loved another human being deeply and intimately. Anyone who has ever been told by family, friends, or others to stop loving someone because that person is the wrong color or class or race or gender will know how I feel today." Ferry said he will spend the next couple of weeks thinking and praying about his future plans. He said he may ask another Canadian bishop who is aware of his sexual orientation to take him on as a priest. "Bishop Finlay may have abdicated the opportunity of this historical moment to take concrete inclusive action," Ferry said. "The bishop may have made an outcast of me, and by extension many others. The church hierarchy may have abandoned me, but I will not abandon the church. I will remain, on the margins, as a voice crying out for justice, love, and full inclusion in the life of the church family. I believe that it will not be too many years before my hope and faith will be vindicated." Valerie Edwards, Ferry's lawyer, said Finlay refused the opportunity to put an end to discrimination against homosexual clergy in the diocese. She said her client will now consider launching a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission. "It would be up to Bishop Finlay to prove that his continued discrimination against gay clergy, and in particular the requirement that gay clergy be celibate, constitutes a bona fide occupational requirement," she said. "It would be both unfortunate and ironic if the true meaning of Christian and Anglican values were to be determined not by a church court, but by a civil tribunal." Details of the rarely convened five-member Bishop's Court, which heard charges against Ferry over five days last month, were released yesterday by Finlay. The court found that two of four charges brought by the bishop against Ferry were proven. Ferry's "admitted conduct" constituted "contumacy and disrespectful conduct" toward the bishop in his administration of diocesan affairs, the court found. Charges that Ferry violated his "oath of canonical obedience" and that his conduct was dishonorable and disorderly had not been proven, the court said. Ferry launched a lawsuit for unlawful dismissal seeking his reinstatement and claiming more than $500,000 in damages for breach of confidence. He was later put back on the diocesan payroll when Finlay referred the matter to Bishop's Court. Just before the court started, Ferry dropped his breach of confidence suit but maintained his option to pursue his suit for unlawful dismissal. In a pastoral letter to be read Sunday at all Anglican church services in the diocses, Finlay acknowledges the past nine months have been a time of great personal anguish for church members, for himself, for Ferry, and for other homosexuals. However, he says the church is "the family of God and in any healthy family there is need for both discipline and loving care." As bishop, he says, he has to maintain the unity and the discipline of the church and to excercise pastoral care. Finlay said that while guidelines adopted by Canadian bishops in 1979 -- and reaffirmed in 1991 -- express the mind of the church at the present time, a number of important issues have been raised that call on the church to review and reassess the guidelines. In a statement yesterday, Anglican Primate Archbishop Michael Peers said Finlay acted fully within his authority as bishop and had excercised "discipline with wisdom" while at the same time pointing the way forward for healing and reconciliation. Peers praised Ferry's courage during a difficult public ordeal and said he hoped Ferry will not be seen simply as an offender, but as a person who had acted out of a deep committment to the Christian faith. "Christians resolve fundamental issues through dialogue and listening, and as well sometimes through conflict," Peers said. "Understanding human sexuality will require patient listening and study of all members of the church. --- Kate