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Reflection: Notes from 20 years of the Uniting Church’s sexuality debate
I remember that moment and the Presbytery’s unanimous, unquestioning endorsement. Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged Eighth Assembly, Fifteenth Assembly, homophobia, homosexuality, Ninth Assembly, ordination, sexuality, sexuality debate, thesis, UAICC, Uniting Church
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Reflection: My chains fell off, my heart was free
I am proud of the Uniting Church and of every member of the Assembly who discerned a way forward with grace and humility. Continue reading
From the thesis: The Church and the Law
From the late nineteen sixties the predecessors of the Uniting Church called for the decriminalisation of male homosexuality, and in the eighties and nineties the leadership of the Uniting Church supported the addition of sexuality to the prohibited grounds of discrimination in equal opportunity legislation. Continue reading
Posted in Political Activism, Random Musings, Reflection
Tagged history, homosexuality, law, thesis, uniting church in australia
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