Jesus loves me this I know . . . for the Bible tells me so

We confess that the institutional church has often judged, alienated and excluded from the community of faith gay, lesbian and bisexual persons, or has been complicit by its silence.

We agree to celebrate, support and honor commitment ceremonies of homosexual people, recognizing the difficulty of maintaining such partnerships in the absence of the social validations, role models and legal frameworks that support heterosexual marriages.

We honor our encounters with the Spirit in nature and through our own and each other's bodies.

We seek to move beyond individual survival strategies that merely react to oppression and towards collectively affirming life patterns that nurture and grow queer identities.

We recognise that among the people whose orientation is homosexual and who do not believe they are called to celibacy there are members of the church whose Christian character and pastoral gifts we respect.