 In addition to the Sexuality and Relationships Working Group there needs to be a significant level of LGBTI+ representation on each of its boards, councils and divisions for which the Archbishops' council has oversight -- the representatives should be chosen by members of all houses of Synod, not by the Archbishops' Council or bishops alone
 For the Church of England to appoint a National Lead for LGBTI+ matters based at Church House -- LGBTI+ themselves, who works to the Sexuality and Relationships Working Group and liaises with boards, councils, divisions and dioceses, holds to the need for the kind of change that we propose, but also understands and accepts the need to support all sides
 For the publication and recommendation of an official liturgy for the blessing of same-sex couples after a Civil Partnership or Civil Marriage - this does not need to be complicated. The Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving after a civil marriage could be adjusted very simply
 To effect paragraph 13 (a) of Annex 1: Sexuality Issues: what is and is not possible under the relevant legal positions, so that being married to a person of the same sex is not of itself a breach of Canon C26.2

Some will ask, What about the Communion? I know that for some people this program is not what they want to see. But even the Bishops' Report, muddled and cautious and compromising as it is, leaves the conservative voices in the Communion dissatisfied and suspicious.

To put it bluntly, there is no pleasing Archbishop Okoh. (Nigerian Primate). We would have to return to a punitive, closeted, change therapy-seeking church to satisfy that source of opinion. There is no point in trying to appease those who take that position.

Discovering what Good Disagreement looks like should probably be the task of the Anglican Communion. It is not the right thing to sacrifice the lives and relationships of the LGBTI+ faithful of the Church of England on the altar of a pretended unity within the Communion.

Do the right thing and then work out how to embody that unity in diversity which is the reality of every church in every time. Anglicanism, almost above any other global expression of Christianity, has acknowledged for a very long time the importance of local inculturation of the faith. And the right thing to do in England is the right thing for the Church of which the bishops are its leaders and the Synod is its parliament.

OneBodyOneFaith, with its ecumenical concern for the life of the Christian Church across the nation, sees this coming week as a moment of real opportunity and hope. We will be praying for the Synod and all its members as they gather. But while the focus of activity will be on trying to persuade Synod members not to take note of GS 2055, God is calling us to a better and different future. So, this is our starting point. This is the way forward. This is gathering the stones together. This, as a minimum, will help start to build and grow a servant church for all the people, in which every person, be they ever so small or ordinary, can have a full and valued place. It is time to build

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