Her Name Was Too Long

BEACH CITY, Ohio—A man climbing a rock in eastern Ohio to spray-paint a love message died after slipping and falling, his friend said. Arthur Lewis, 21, of Navarre was pronounced dead Wednesday at Akron City Hospital.

Lewis and friend Richard Burkey climbed to the top part of Mackin’s Rock in Tuscarawas County Tuesday so Lewis could paint “Art loves Kaylee,” his girlfriend of more than three years, Burkey said. The rock, south of Beach City, is painted with several other similar messages.

“He was trying reach out further to get her name done,” Burkey said. “He kept saying her name was too long. He tried to reach out further and he slipped.”

The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating the death and said Lewis fell 25 to 30 feet.

Burkey said his cell phone didn’t get reception at the rock, so he put Lewis in the back of his pickup truck and drove to a service station, where medical assistance was called.

Lewis is believed to have been with a friend or relative near Hobo’s Cave at the time of the fall and was flown by medical helicopter to the Akron hospital, the medical examiner said.

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Anglican head Williams says anti-gays misread Bible

PARIS (Reuters) – The spiritual leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans has said conservative Christians who cite the Bible to condemn homosexuality are misreading a key passage written by Saint Paul almost 2,000 years ago.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, addressing theology students in Toronto, said an oft-quoted passage in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans meant to warn Christians not to be self-righteous when they see others fall into sin.

His comments were an unusually open rebuff to conservative bishops, many of them from Africa, who have been citing the Bible to demand that pro-gay Anglican majorities in the United States and Canada be reined in or forced out of the Communion.

“Many current ways of reading miss the actual direction of the passage,” Williams said on Monday, according to a text of his speech posted on the Anglican Church of Canada’s Web site.

“Paul is making a primary point not about homosexuality but about the delusions of the supposedly law-abiding.”

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