We are freed to the joyful responsibility of a life of integrity by God's saving grace. Nothing is held back. There can be no living two lives at once, one faithful and the other not. What one is before God one must be also for one's fellow human beings. Life in Jesus Christ is, from one moment to the next, from one relationship to the next, all of a piece.
Integrity also has to do with the wholeness of the church.
We have come to a point in this debate at which the church's integrity as a body is threatened. Already our sense of communion with fellow members is narrowing down toward communion only with like-minded people. We are beginning to base our effective koinonia on partisan moral certitudes rather than on God's grace to us as forgiven sinners. Disrupting the integrity of the church in this way is a very special brand of unfaithfulness. Finally, I want to speak of integrity in the actual conduct of this debate.