She was a founding member and the first co-president of Integrity, a group formed to advocate for the full participation of lesbians, gays and bisexuals in the church.
Moore related his belief that it was not so much Barrett's sexual orientation that his fellow bishops found disturbing, but rather her candor as a lesbian.
[4] Eleven years after her ordination, the first openly gay male homosexual, Philip Lance,[6] was ordained in January 1988 without media coverage.
The House of Bishops met in Port St. Lucie nine months later and a resolution condemning homosexuality as unbiblical and reasserting the heterosexual confines of marriage was passed.
This was credited by observers and participants to influential detractors of Moore and Barrett advocating vigorously to retain a right of dissent.
However, this same principle of conscience led a growing number of bishops to ordain "out" homosexuals throughout the 1980s, promoting a liberal theological culture of inclusion and tolerance.