On the 5th December 2005 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Reverend Gordon Moyes the upper house Christian Democrat and superintendent for the Wesley Mission which is Uniting Church largest and wealthiest biggest regret was ‘the inability to convince the hierarchy that homosexuality had no place in the church.’
Reverend Gordon said: “Ministers in particular must live a holy and respectable life. There should be no room within the life of ministers in the church for sex, whether it be heterosexual or homosexual. I regard that as pretty much a failure but I'll keep working at it. It's not a losing battle because the church must always correct itself and always has over the years."
As 750 people attended Sydney Town Hall he delivered the sermon of ‘The Recovery of Sight To The Blind’ preaching: “…Many in every street are blinded by the media, television, pornography, permissiveness, greed and exploitation." With regards to Channel Ten explicit episodes of Big Brother he said: “We are a community of families, not a community of philanderers.”
The Sydney Morning Herald reported as the Reverend Gordon leave his parish on December 31st a new minister from the United Kingdom known as Reverend Keith Garner will take over.
Making a pact with himself to retire at 65 Dr Moyes will devout his time to concentrate on: “Helping the unemployed, the poor, the homeless, the prisoners, the aged, the sick, the disabled by taking the fight to Parliament. Governments must do a lot more to help the mentally ill and that will be one of my concerns."
The Sydney Morning Herald reported: “Philip Ruddock the Federal Attorney-General, and Bob Carr the former premier of New South Wales praised Dr Moyes in a DVD launched yesterday, Follow the Journey of a Remarkable Man.”
Ending on a positive note the greatest achievement Dr Moyes attain was: “Redeveloping the church site in Pitt Street, at a cost of $320 million and to open that debt-free."