Some well known Church leaders, including Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Southern Africa, Presiding Bishop Edmond L Browning, head of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and Archbishop Michael Peers, the Primate of the Canadian Anglican Church and Richard Holloway, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, gave support to a public message congratulating a British gay Christian group on its 20th anniversary. The message they all signed said: "On its 20th anniversary celebration, we recognise the valuable contribution made to the continuing debate on sexuality and Christianity by the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, and we call upon the Churches to engage fully with this important question."

Advertisements congratulating the organisation - the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) - and bearing the names of 300 distinguished Church officials, including nine other Anglican bishops, appeared on Friday 9 February in three Church newspapers in Britain.