Robert Forsyth

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There is also a Robert Forsyth, former U.S. Marshal.

Robert Forsyth is the Anglican Bishop of South Sydney - a region of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He has been bishop since 2000. Prior to that he was the rector of St. Barnabas, Broadway.

Bishop Forsyth is often quoted in the media in stories related to the Sydney Diocese. A defender of free speech, he was sued for defamation in 2006 in relation to a statement made at one of his parishes about a woman parishioner. The Sydney Diocese paid the woman a sum of money in settlement of the claim.

On January 19, 2008, Forsyth condemned "Corpus Christi" (which opens for February's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a play depicting Judas seducing Jesus): "It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it." The play also showed Jesus administrating a marriage between two of his male apostles. Director Leigh Rowney accepted that it would offend some Christians and said: "I wanted this play in the hands of a Christian person like myself to give it dignity but still open it up to answering questions about Christianity as a faith system." Playwright Terrence McNally, received death threats in the United States from extremist religious groups.[1]

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