We pray for an inclusive and whole church.

We pray that the church will dare to listen, to look on our faces and see there the image of God, to hear the pain and feel the shared joy, and to go on struggling towards the truth.

We pray that the church will indeed know that great hope to which we are called in Jesus Christ and that it will be open to Christ's power to reconcile us to each other and to God.

We confess that the institutional church has often judged, alienated and excluded from the community of faith gay, lesbian and bisexual persons, or has been complicit by its silence.

We agree to celebrate, support and honor commitment ceremonies of homosexual people, recognizing the difficulty of maintaining such partnerships in the absence of the social validations, role models and legal frameworks that support heterosexual marriages.

We honor our encounters with the Spirit in nature and through our own and each other's bodies.