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Philip Bewley, student at Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne, and Dr Peter Sherlock, post doctoral fellow in history at Melbourne University, are launching a new Changing Attitude network in the Diocese of Melbourne.

Today, at the 11th annual St. Dorothy Day Mass, part of Melbourne's annual Midsumma festival, Philip and Peter are inviting people to register interest. A core group are to meet before holding a first public meeting, probably sometime in March.

Changing Attitude was founded in 1995 as a network of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual members of the four Anglican churches of the United Kingdom. It now totals over 1000 people, including supporters in other countries. Its goal: the day when the Anglican Church fully accepts, welcomes and offers equality of opportunity to lesbian, gay and bisexual people.There are Changing Attitude networks in Scotland and New Zealand and Nigeria. They have similar aims to Integrity in the USA, Canada and Uganda (e-mail).

I earnestly pray that Changing Attitude will flourish in Australia. Yet more I pray that one day it will be no longer be necessary to have an organisation to work toward the day when the Anglican Church in Australia fully accepts, welcomes and offers equality of opportunity to lesbian, gay and bisexual people, because that day will have arrived.