This is the e-mail list for Oasis California, the LGBT Ministry of the Diocese of California. covering the Bay Area in northern California, we can help you find an Episcopal Church where you will feel at home, meet other LGBT Episcopalians, and help our church minister to LGBT folks. Across the Bay Area, Episcopal Churches welcome LGBT folks to worship with us, sing in our choirs, and become full members of our congregations. Oasis affiliated Episcopal Churches make a special effort to welcome LGBT people. At these churches, LGBT folks can be sure their partners and their family will be welcomed and respected. Equally important, these congregations will welcome and nurture children with LGBT parents. Here you can find an Episcopal Church that welcomes LGBT members and their families. You can also learn how your parish can become an Oasis Affiliated congregation. Photo is of Oasis President, the Rev. Tom Jackson (left), speaking at a community meeting outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco. A few minutes later judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on whether Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling against Prop 8 should stand.