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Now you've done it again, with your great vestry resolution on sacramental marriage. I have taken my title this morning from the Jewish lesbian poet Adrienne Rich, who tells us that if we want to live in a city whose people are changing despair into hope, we ourselves must initiate the change. I was struggling with my own despair at the time, heterosexually married because I'd been assured that if I behaved like a heterosexual I'd come to feel like one. It hadn't happened and I was facing the fact that my life was not authentic. And acting on hope will bring us to a pride that is genuine.