Changing Attitude Ireland – Annual General Meeting 2023

Changing Attitude Ireland was delighted to welcome Jayne Ozanne to speak to us on Saturday 25 March 2023, before we held our AGM. Following the AGM, CAI are delighted to announce that Mark Bowyer has been elected chair in succession to Scott Golden, who has stepped down after many years of service on the committee. Mark has been on the committee for a number of years and is an openly gay man, a Diocesan Lay Minister in the Church of Ireland and who is committed to the work of CAI. Speaking after his election as chair, Mark Bowyer said, “it is important now, more than ever, that we continue to be the voice of those who feel marginalised in their own church and communities because of their sexuality. We risk losing a generation of LGBT+ people who are turned away from the Church because of this.” [Continue Reading]

Launch of ‘Guide to the Conversation on Human Sexuality in the Context of Christian Belief’

The Church of Ireland Select Committee on Human Sexuality has published the result of its three year ‘listening process’. Entitled the “Guide to the Conversation on Human Sexuality in the context of Christian Belief”  it details the long and often fraught journey that this issue has taken from the House of Bishops’ first pastoral letter on the issue of Human Sexuality, in September 2003, right up to the present day and the publication of this guide. [Continue Reading]