[disclaimer: this post may not have anything to do with Britain]

Last night I went along to Luke's Evensong followed by the Changing Attitude Australia* (CAA) AGM at our very own Christ Church South Yarra.

I was rather pleased to have the CAA folk turn up in my own backyard since I've long contemplated joining (and haven't thus far because I'm no longer an office worker with a 'free' printer on demand and the instruction to 'go to our website and print out our form' is never a helpful one).

Outgoing Co-President, the Reverend Scott Holmes (who as it turns out has been in my own backyard all along, at St Martin's Hawksburn)
preached a rip-roaring sermon which, we are assured, will be going online (somewhere!) shortly.

Since there has been a bit of a recent blogging resurgence from Changing Attitude UK, Scott's sermon popping up on t'internet will be
timely. 

Beginning with Luke, the physician, Scott considered what it means to be healthy. Bravely listing his own medical complaints, niggles, and worries, and asking us to remember our own, he challenged us to come up with a total model of what defines a healthy person. It isn't possible; for each of us whether we consider that we are, from this day to the next, healthy, is entirely down to (to put it into anthropologist speak) individually embodied experience.

If, he wondered, physical health is something that we each experience for ourselves, then mightn't it also be true of spiritual health?

And if we come to see spiritual health as not based on a one-size-fits-all model … (can you see where this is going?), then isn't it high time we abandoned a one-size-fits-all model when it comes to human sexuality?

There was actually a lot more to the sermon than my quick précis here, but it deserves to be read in it's entirety when it pops up online. Though I've concentrated here on the message which chimes the most with CAA's valuable work, Scott managed, I felt, to offer the fabled
something for everyone (even, I hope, the sorts who'd turn up to the opening of an envelope and who weren't entirely sure before the service what this Changing Attitude thingywotsit was about).

At the AGM (which I merrily invited myself to), there was some concern that CAA has a largely inactive membership, and that this is hampering their reach. But I do hope that encouragement is taken from the success of Scott's engaging sermon. As my (older and wiser) friend Diana announced in a momentary confusion between the twin excitements of Evensong and vestry elections: “I'm voting for the homosexuals!”

You can show your support for CAA, no matter where or who you are, by popping along to their new Facebook page. They'll be chuffed.

*CAA works for the full inclusion of people of all sexualities in the Anglican communion.