This is a lengthy read but the issues under consideration are many and various. This is a carefully nuanced document because the sensitivities felt on different sides of the argument are real and intense. The title, "A challenge to unity", acknowledges both the strength of feeling which has already been expressed over same-sex relationships as an issue in theology and human sexuality and the continuing difficulties which will not admit a simple resolution. However, the report does more than investigate opposing stances of a controversy - and indeed would not wish to imply that there are only two sides to this. Rather, it seeks to articulate something of the range of differing views and at the same time to discern what may yet be said in a common Christian understanding of the situation in which we find ourselves.

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