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The article focuses on the response of the liberals regarding same-sex marriage in the U.S. The liberals want to show how same-sex marriage fits within the scriptural liturgy and orthodox theology of the church. Moreover, their argument acknowledges that burden by showing how an innovative witness to marriage is part of the Episcopal Church's mission within its culture and by explaining how missional innovation sits within a New Testament pattern of church unity and discernment.

The article offers views from the liberals regarding theology of marriage such as same-sex couples in the U.S. The liberals argue that the church must consider same-sex couples to be married because it requires their testimony to the love of Christ and the church. Moreover, the liberals mention that they base their argument on the embodied discipline of marriage by which God may transform longing into charity and dispositions to love into works of virtue.