We support the open letter from LGB Church of Ireland people to members of General Synod

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   Name: Lesley McLarnon on May 6, 2012

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   Name: Rupert Moreton on May 6, 2012

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   Name: Alan Law on May 6, 2012

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   Name: Philip Prosser on May 6, 2012

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   Name: Paul Rowlandson on May 6, 2012

   Comments: As Bishop Spong said: "Any definition that has to be reaffirmed is no longer holding.When anyone seeks to protect a dying definition, failure is inevitable".

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   Name: Síle Healy on May 6, 2012

   Comments: I wholeheartedly support this petition.

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   Name: Kathleen Murphy-Healy on May 6, 2012

   Comments: I think that it is ridicolous that gay/lesbian membes of the Church of ireland are refused communion based on their sexuality. the issue about marraige being the main area where meaningful sexual relationships can take place would also exclude co habiting couples of the opposite sex which i think in this day and age is disgraceful. Christ said that to love one another as i have loved you. I agree with your views above.

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   Name: Douglas McIldoon on May 6, 2012

   Comments: No synod knows whether any personal human relationship, sexual or otherwise, formalised by the church or not, is wholesome, life enhancing or degrading and destructive whether to those directly involved or third parties. It is not the role of the church to bureaucratise relationships about which it is not capable of forming any judgement. Such matters should be left between God and the conscience of each Christian.

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   Name: Stephen Glenn on May 6, 2012

   Comments: As a Presbyterian in Ireland who happens to be gay I find the text of this resolution disgraceful, especially in light of the dialogue that has been going on within the Church of Ireland over recent years on this issue. It appears that Bishop of Down and Dromore and Archbishop of Dublin are not prepared to listen to that dialogue and as a result their aims would bring yet more shame on the church at large.

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    Name: Andrew McFarland Campbell on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Gareth Johnston on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Judith Thurley on May 6, 2012

    Comments: I am neither lesbian, nor am I any longer a member of a Church of Ireland congregation. But I am signing this petition because I disapprove of Resolution 8a and the recent conference on homosexuality which excluded openly gay people. I am sure however that there was one closet gay man at the conference. I know one member of the select vestry and choir of a parish near Armagh who is hiding his sexual orientation by remarrying. I witnessed an interaction between him and a young man some years ago, and when I spoke to him about deceiving me into thinking he was straight (I was in a relationship with him for several years) his response was to get engaged and quickly married to another unsuspecting woman, to allay any suspicions and render himself 'normal' in the eyes of the church. The narrow-minded attitude of the church breeds this kind of dishonesty, deceit and hypocrisy.

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    Name: Elaine Murray on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Mark Mcgookin on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Peter Davies on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Brian Gilmore on May 6, 2012

    Comments: I am apalled that proper democratic procedures on consultation have not been adopted by the General Synod, who are discriminating against gay Christians in their own Church.

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    Name: John Barry on May 6, 2012

    Comments: It is with sadness and some anger that I support this reasonable petition. The flagrant lack of respect being shown to the LGBT community is unbecoming, disgraceful and cannot be allowed to pass unremarked. Shame on the Church of Ireland

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    Name: Simon Herbert on May 6, 2012

    Comments: Good luck with your crusade!

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    Name: Aileen Lennon on May 6, 2012

    Comments: Not right, not proper and not acceptable.

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    Name: Amanda on May 6, 2012

    Comments: I support the LGB letter to the church

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    Name: Noelle Robinson on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Steve Donnan on May 6, 2012

    Comments: I'm gay, I'm Christian, and I am entitled to God's love and the respect of his followers as much as anybody else. For a church to deny someone the right to enjoy and celebrate their faith based on how God made them is to spit on the very foundations of what it means to love one another, as Jesus has commanded us to do. I support this petition whole heartedly.

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    Name: Norman Smith on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Carolyn Rhodes on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Laura Chamberlain on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Stephen Spillane on May 6, 2012

    Comments: Diocese Cork, Cloyne & Ross

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    Name: Canon Stephen Neill (Limerick & Killaloe) on May 6, 2012

    Comments: Key reason I am signing this petition is the lack of consultation with those most affected and the irregular way in which such important motions have been bought forward - we all (conservative or liberal ) deserve better of our bishops! This is playing politics with people's lives and conduct unbecoming of those who hold high office in our church.

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    Name: Anonymous on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Anne on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Fergus Ryan on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Gillian Wharton on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Brian Glennon on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Daniel Friedmann on May 6, 2012

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    Name: Jessica Webbley-O'Gorman on May 7, 2012

    Comments: C of I lay member, Dublin diocese.

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    Name: Susanne Montgomery on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Catrin S. Rhys on May 7, 2012

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    Name: William Odling-Smee on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Katherine O'Donnell on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Eleanor Maynard on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Keith Scott on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Virginia Kennerley on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Sandra Pragnell on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Michael McClure on May 7, 2012

    Comments: Living in London, I attend the services of the Church of England but I was baptized in the Church of Ireland and brought up within the Diocese of Down and Dromore. The Church of Ireland should get on with accepting lesbian and gay people in their midst, both clergy and laity, grow up and do important things like helping to preserve peace in Ireland.

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    Name: Canon Paul Willoughby on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Robert Mason on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Alex Hallawell on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Norma Macmaster on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Stephen Hills on May 7, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 7, 2012

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