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Quakers make bold choices to listen to the other side
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has reversed the decision to print only a limited selection of epistles from other yearly meetings, a move provoked by an epistle from a Kenyan yearly meeting rejecting further contact with Quakers tolerant of the 'immoral sexual mannerisms of Gay and Lesbianism'
A considered and at times passionate discussion in Yearly Meeting centred on two issues: whether Britain Yearly Meeting should print all epistles, regardless of tone and content; and how BYM should respond to the attitudes Quakers elsewhere hold on homosexuality
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