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A WARM AND INCLUSIVE CHURCH A genuine welcome for everyone, committed to equality at all levels and roles, supporting LGBTQ+ Christians, championing women and making our churches accessible.
I also founded and run Pride Brass North East, which provides brass bands for local LGBTQ+ Pride parades.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse communities and carer for my disabled partner, I am aware of how the church can be a crucial support for members of marginalised communities, but also a very difficult place to exist.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am very aware of the hurt that LGBTQ+ people and other minorities have often experienced in the church, and support moves towards greater inclusion, including increased support for committed same- sex relationships.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am acutely aware of the hurt that LGBTQ+ people and other minorities have experienced in the church, and support moves for towards greater inclusion for all.
To be clear, I support the blessing of same gender marriage in churches that wish to do so, and the ordination (and licencing) of married LGBTQ+ clergy.
This is rooted in the image of God borne by every person and in the fruits of the Spirit I recognise in faithful LGBTQ+ couples and families.
We can protect conscience and honest theological disagreement without separate structures or making LGBTQ+ people bear its cost indefinitely.
Theological formation should be lifelong, and we must seek vocation beyond familiar networks, working with working-class communities, churches led by people of Global Majority Heritage, disabled and neurodivergent people, and LGBTQ+ groups.
I support the full and equal participation of LGBTQ+ people in the life and ministry of the Church; being in a same-sex marriage should not in itself prevent full involvement and/or ministry.
We have also been able to recruit and support our LGBTQ+ Chaplain in the parish which was the first such full- time role in the Church.
I look forward to seeing LGBTQ+ people fully included and celebrated in our church life.
In the months ahead, the Synod will need to reflect on the kind of provision, which will honour the place of LGBTQ+ clergy and laity in the life of the church, and to do that in a way which respects individual conscience.
I hold the catholic and reformed view of Scripture’s teaching on marriage and believe that, properly understood, it is good news for all - including my LGBTQ+ friends.
Several years of experience campaigning for Women Bishops and championing LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Church, supporting Durham Cathedral at Pride, and working as a member of the North East England Rainbow Alliance.
LGBTQ+ Chaplain
Full inclusion of women and LGBTQ+ people is also essential to our credibility, particularly among younger people.
I am also conscious of the pain felt by LGBTQ+ people who do not yet experience them- selves as Fully welcomed within the life of our Church.
At the same time, I am equally committed to ensuring that LGBTQ+ people experience the Church as a place of welcome, dignity, friendship and spiritual care.
Instead we are excluding the young, the LGBTQ+, the neurodivergent, the minorities, with our fanciful words and old-fashioned liturgy that alienates newcomers and pampers the ego of the old-timers.
That is why I stand for inclusion at all levels including: women in ministry, ethnic and cultural groups, neurodivergent groups, those with different learning needs and the LGBTQ+ community.
It is time we stopped turning away from the LGBTQ+ community and welcomed them fully into our churches.
Most recently I have been working as part of a subgroup of the Archbishops’ Council Committee for the Ministry of and amongst Deaf and Disabled People and, over the past five years I have spoken in General Synod on a range of issues, including: Disability and the inclusion of disabled people within the Church; Prayers of Love and Faith and the welcome of LGBTQ+ people; The full acceptance and inclusion of neurodivergent people.
I am fully supportive of both women’s ministry and equality for LGBTQ+ Christians at all levels and in all roles in the church.
The Living in Love and Faith process has done years of careful work, and I want to keep listening — to Scripture, to LGBTQ+ Christians who've faithfully served this Church, and to this diocese — to faithfully discern God’s will.
I wholeheartedly support the ordination and equal ministry of women at every level of the Church and the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people.
This includes LGBTQ+ people, whose vocation, ministry and discipleship should be recognised, celebrated and nurtured.
The focus has now shifted to LGBTQ+ issues, where many of us have been disappointed by the response of the House of Bishops.
I long to make the church a safe place for LGBTQ+ individuals, allowing them open relationships, marriage and full access to leadership in all roles within the church.
LGBTQ+ I have a commitment to an inclusive church that enables every person to find their place and live out their calling in the body of Christ.
I support the flourishing of LGBTQ+ people in the life of the Church and believe we are called to become communities where people experience belonging, dignity and love.
PLF, mission and ministry — I support a Church for everyone, regardless of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status, mental health, or sexuality, and full God given dignity of LGBTQ+ people.
We are all served by clear process, transparency and accountability. LGBTQ+ people have been faithful despite the pain of discrimination.
Having witnessed the Church cause profound hurt to a member of my family, I am also a passionate LGBTQ+ ally.
I want to help build a Church in which everyone knows they belong, where women are supported in ministry, LGBTQ+ people are fully welcomed and valued, and disabled and neurodivergent people can participate in every aspect of church life.
I am LGBTQ+ and second-generation Polish, a former sociology and social policy academic, a Modern Church Trustee and Council Member, and I currently serve in a rural Benefice in Bedfordshire, across the parishes of Cople, Moggerhanger and Willington.
Orphaned at 11, brought up in informal family care Mother to two adult daughters, five cats and a dog Keen choral singer, pianist and gardener I am LGBTQ+ and a child of a refugee.
I would work towards social inclusion, as I feel strongly that all people should be made to feel welcome in our places of worship, especially those who feel marginalised such as the LGBTQ community, those with mental health issues and the currently un-churched.
I want to see a Church that: welcomes people from every background into the life of our parishes provides compassionate pastoral care for LGBTQ+ people and others who have often felt excluded values diversity while maintaining unity in Christ encourages honest conversation across theological differences rather than deepening division I believe the Church is strongest when people who disagree are still able to work together for the sake of the Gospel.
As someone in a same-sex relationship, I know personally the hurt and uncertainty that many LGBTQ+ people have experienced within our Church.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community I continue to strive for a church that is welcoming and inclusive, recognising and celebrating relationships of all God’s people.
congregation, creating a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ people and their allies to find genuine belonging, explore faith and encounter God.
by supporting full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people, equal marriage, the full ministry of women and for disability, mental health and neurodiversity inclusion.
I support the full ministry of women and the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people, including equal marriage.
That commitment to a broad and welcoming Church shapes my support for the ministry of women and the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people.
I believe in the full inclusion of our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers in the liturgical and sacramental life of our Church and will use every opportunity to argue for it.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community I know how important it is that we are represented when issues which affect our lives, worship and ministry are being discussed.
considering the future shape of the diocese in regard to the LGBTQ+ community.