Minute: New Brunswick Meeting on Sexual Orientation

Submitted by StevenDavison on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:16am

New Brunswick Friends Meeting

The following minute was approved by New Brunswick Friends Meeting at the Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business on Second Month, seventeenth day, 2008:

We, the members of the New Brunswick Monthly Meeting, are led to profess our belief that the Spirit and Light of God can be found equally within loving heterosexual and homosexual persons and their relationships. We can have no unity with discrimination against homosexuality nor can we condone this discrimination with silence.

Minute: Montclair Meeting on Sexual Orientation

Submitted by StevenDavison on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:15am

Montclair Monthly Meeting

At its Monthly Meeting for Business, sixth month 11, 2006, the following minute was approved:

Montclair Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends affirms the right of any F/friend to form a lasting and meaningful relationship based upon integrity, mutual love and commitment. Such a relationship will be respected and upheld by the Monthly Meeting in all matters spiritual and temporal.

Minute: Housatonic Meeting on Sexual Orientation

Submitted by StevenDavison on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:14am

Housatonic Minute
Regarding Friends United Meeting’s
Hiring and Volunteer Policy

Friends United Meeting’s current policy regarding employees and volunteers is inconsistent with Housatonic Friends’ most deeply held values and testimonies. We cite specifically the section which reads:

It is expected that sexual intercourse should be confined to marriage, understood to be between one man and one woman.