  I had a chance to think anew about all this recently when Otis Charles, former Episcopal bishop of Utah and, until recently, assistant bishop of California, spoke at a forum at an Episcopal church in Kansas City. Charles and his domestic partner, Felipe Paris, participated in a public commitment ceremony in April at an Episcopal church in San Francisco, after which the bishop fired Charles. The ceremony was meant to be private, but the San Francisco Chronicle learned and wrote about it afterward - with the eventual cooperation of Charles and Paris... 
