" The Uniting Church in Australia affirms that it belongs to the people of GOD on the way to the promised end. "

In July 1997, the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia

• affirmed sexuality as God’s good gift,
• recognised the commitment of the Church to be both multicultural and inclusive and
• committed the Church to a continuing dialogue about the place of homosexual people in its life, in the same spirit of openness and compassion that prevailed during the meeting of this Assembly.

The day Rev Dr Dorothy McRae McMahon acknowledged the reality of her sexuality was the day she felt whole and integrated for the first time in her life.

Church takes stand against gay vilification - the Uniting Church in Paddington, Sydney has come out in support of the gay and lesbian community, by placing a four square meter Safe Place banner over its church entrance.

One dilemma for many Evangelicals, Aborigines and members of ethnic minorities is that they are attracted by the social activism of the Uniting Church but they are strongly opposed to homosexuality.

three former Presidents' report to Assembly Standing Committee on how the the outstanding issues relating to sexuality, comments on this report from National Social Responsibility and Justice Committee and response from the Uniting Network

Rev Robert Stringer has released a statement from the Social Responsibility and Justice Committee of the Uniting Church that affirms and supports an inclusive church. The statement points out that the UCA has gained increased community support and improved evangelical opportunities through its positive and credible leadership in facing issues of sexuality. These are presented as affirming and hopeful outcomes for homosexual persons. Key attitudes of compassion, justice making, and courage in facing isues of sexuality are presented as signs of hope that have brought the church grreater community credibility.

It is with deep regret that the Assembly Standing Committee recognises that instances of abuse, harassment and vilification have occurred in the church since the 1997 Assembly, arising from differences of conviction on homosexuality. Statement to the Church November 1998.

The Uniting Church is listening to young people

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressively, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Jonathan Swift