Tuesday, January 16, 2007

A letter from Santa Rosa

Episcopal Majority reprints a letter by the Rev. Matthew Lawrence (Rector, Incarnation Episcopal Church, Santa Rosa) entitled Sex, Religion, and the Culture Wars -An Open Letter to the Community.

An excerpt:
Episcopalians do not tend to believe in homosexuality as a moral or psychological disorder. We accept the well-researched findings of boring experts like the American Psychiatric Association, which sees homosexuality as a “normal variant of human sexuality.” An important question, then, is not the gender of your partner but rather the quality of your intimate relationship. Are you committed, monogamous, and nurturing? Most of us have come to know homosexuals who are involved in healthy, life-giving and sustaining partnerships. We see that there is no essential difference between gay and straight: we all long for love; we all fail to love perfectly; and as we deepen our spiritual journey, we seek to live in forgiveness and harmony with the Source of love. Episcopalians humbly follow Jesus as One who shows us how this is done, and for that reason our worship centers around Christ.

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