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For decades, LGBTQ+ Episcopalians and allies have worked to make The Episcopal Church a place of belonging and inclusion. We have prayed, studied, and discerned, and in doing so, we have seen the evidence of God’s blessing in the lives and love of our LGBTQ+ siblings in Christ.

With an estimated million members, the Episcopal Church is open and welcoming of the LGBTQ+ community. Unlike the Worldwide Anglican Communion, of which it is a part, the Episcopal Church does not condemn homosexuality.

Being inclusive of all people is core tenet of the Episcopal Church and they began allowing same-sex marriage in , days after the United States Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

Graves — a Black, gay, married priest who became rector of Christ Episcopal Church in September — has already been cautiously stoking that change on local and national levels, pushing the.