The Sexuality Debate in the Uniting Church
A divisive issue
Sexuality has been a very big and divisive issue in the Uniting Church over the past six or so years. Both the NewSouth Wales Synod site and the Assembly site have links to a wide range of information about the issue. The Assembly site confines itself to official UCA documents, while the NSW Synod also has letters from various church members and links to a wide variety of other material on the issue of the place of homosexual people in the church.
If you are interested in some more extended and scholarly treatments of this issue which come from a perspective that argues to include homosexual people fully in the life of the church, you could look at Homosexuality and the Bible by Walter Wink, Is the Homosexual my Neighbour? - a transcript of an address given by Tony Campolo and his wife, Peggy at North Park College chapel, Can the Church Listen? - a series of Bible studies for those who want to hear the stories of gay and lesbian Christians, and Homosexuality and the Uniting Church by Rev Dr Robert Bos You can find these links on the NSW Synod site, but they're a long way down! Another good place to look is One Man's Web where Rev Andrew Prior, a Uniting Church Minister from South Australia looks at this issue.
If you want to look at information which supports the idea that homosexual people should not have leadership roles in the church, you could start at the Assembly of Confessing Congregations website, bearing in mind that by no means all of the material here could be called scholarly.