Responses to the commitment made to homosexual persons at Lambeth

To: Bishops of the Anglican Communion: ;
Subject: Your response to the commitment made to homosexual persons at Lambeth
From: Louie Crew <lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:33:09 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Bishop-Deputy Discussion <BishopsDeputies@justus.anglican.org>, International Lesbian & Gay Christian Network <sigma@newark.rutgers.edu>

[Sent to 443 Anglican bishops online, 185 of them in ECUSA]

Gentle Bishop,

I would appreciate your sharing with me, in any format that you find convenient, a description of specific ways that your part of the Anglican Communion has acted, or expects to act, on the two-part commitment bishops made to homosexual persons three years ago at Lambeth: 1) "to listen to the experience of homosexual people" and 2) "to assure them that they are loved by God."

I will report all responses (and non-responses) that I receive back to this list, and will also publish that report on my Anglican pages and in various other venues.

Send your responses by email to lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu or by snail mail to Louie Crew, Diocese of Newark, 31 Mulberry Street, Newark, NJ 07102.

I rejoice that bishops made these commitments. May God give you joy as you live into them.

Please call on me If I can be of any service in helping you connect.

Faithfully yours,
Louie Crew, Ph.D, D.D.

P.S.

Here is the specific section of the resolution at Lambeth:


    c. recognises that there are among us persons who experience
       themselves as having a homosexual orientation. Many of these are
       members of the Church and are seeking the pastoral care, moral
       direction of the Church, and God's transforming power for the
       living of their lives and the ordering of relationships, and we
       commit ourselves to listen to the experience of homosexual
       people.  We wish to assure them that they are loved by God and 
       that all baptised, believing and faithful persons, regardless of
       sexual orientation, are full members of the Body of Christ;

       See the full resolution at 
       http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/lambeth/lc093.html

If you need any information about me, you can find a resume at

http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/crew.html

Note: On August 29, I sent an additional letter to a small subset of these, who had also received the note above, offering to pay my own way to visit it they wanted my help. That will explain the wording of a few of the notes posted in the responses. --L.

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