Approved June 2024 Meeting for Business
The Meeting has a history and ongoing practice of affirming and celebrating our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary members and attenders.
Each person’s faithful expression of their gender and sexuality is an opportunity to make visible God’s work in creating unique individuals and ordaining relationships of peace, love, and joy between them.
Any person who is led to faithfully love who they love and express in integrity who they are, including through their gender expression, is ministering to the world and showing who God is. When Meeting members and attenders do this, their faithfulness blesses the whole Meeting.
Our Meeting will continue to support our LGBTQ&NB members and attenders as they live lives of faith and integrity—including respecting, affirming, and celebrating their uniqueness, supporting them in the choice to “come out,” caring for them as they live and form relationships (including marriages under the care of the meeting), and caring for them in the face of any test or rebuke they are subjected to by the world and society.