Q. What is The Mother Church’s policy on sexuality and membership?
A. The Clerk’s Office is sometimes asked about various types of sexual relationships and whether they should affect membership in The Mother Church. While on the surface of things it would seem as if these questions could be answered by a simple yes or no policy, our Church is committed to something deeper—to uniting with those who are “newborn of Spirit” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 35).
When you think about it, would anyone really want to join a church that believed membership was simply a matter of coming up with a list of accepted and non-accepted behaviors and then deciding whether you agreed with them? For the Apostle Paul, the entrance of Christ into one’s heart (and isn’t that really what joining Church should be about?) demanded a whole new way of identifying ourselves: “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:26).
