This is important for us to recognize in order to duly defend and strengthen the church, to further the Kingdom, and to give us another reason to turn away from sin when we're tempted. To become healthy members of a strong and effective Body, we need to have an awareness of the harm that our sexual sins do to others.

I see seven ways in which even our solitary sexual sins bring harm to the Body of Christ:

I will be hitting upon this throughout this talk: Remember always the balance between the two great commissions-to make disciples, baptize them, teach them all that I have taught you, draw people into the faith, but at the same time, remember that the culture is to be reclaimed. The world is to be reclaimed because it is God's world. My duty today is to bring God's truth and righteousness and majesty to bear in the culture. So we have two great commissions.

The desire to heal emotional pain was cited as a major motivator by 77% of respondents, compared to 22% who identified "outside pressure" as a major motivator. In fact, just 3% identified outside pressure as one of the three main reasons they were seeking change.

The survey was conducted by People Can Change, a non-profit, non-religious self-help organization of men who have overcome unwanted homosexual attractions and who now support others who seek similar change.

Danforth, also a former U.S. envoy to Sudan, told the Presiding Bishop's forum, "Toward a Reconciled World," at the convention on June 15 that "Virtually all of the public attention on this General Convention has been on the issue of sexual orientation...bear in mind that over 99 percent of the people in the United States are not Episcopalians and they really don't care, with all due respect, Bishop Griswold, who our bishops are.