'Saints and Sinners: The Role of Conservative Christian Pressure Groups in the Christian Gay Debate in the UK'.

The article informs that along with the ordination of women priests, the subject of gay rights within churches in Great Britain is probably the most controversial and challenging issue facing contemporary Christianity. In line with other elements of the gay liberation movement from the 1970s, the gay Christian movement has sought to organize and mobilize in order to extend and protect what it regards as fundamental rights. The principal organization in Great Britain is the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM). Most LGCM supporters are largely liberal in orientation, both politically and theologically, regarding a number of other key issues in the church and put a great deal of emphasis on related social programmes. This paper considers those groups that have mobilized themselves against the gay Christian cause.