Our message is one of tolerance, of raising awareness. We also actively promote the acceptance of homosexuality and fight against ignorance. It is our belief that these four issues; tolerance, awareness, acceptance and ignorance are more dangerous than Aids as it is far less easy to protect others and us from them.

Tenet 1: The Promulgation of Universal Joy.
Our first tenet is a mission which the Order tries to carry out personally and collectively as an antidote to the oppressive effects of gender roles and behaviour forced upon women and men in our society. The Order tries to exorcise the gloom of conformity and 'proper' behaviour from our own lives and the lives of others.

Tenet 2.: The Expiation of Stigmatic Guilt
Stigmatic Guilt is the effect of centuries of scapegoating of gay people. In a way similar to that in which women were made to feel less than human because they are women, so gays were made to swallow lies about themselves. The stigma attached to being gay or lesbian brought its own brand of guilt and self oppression, and still does. The Order wants to expiate this on behalf of lesbian and gay people.

Tenet 3: Habitual Manifestation
This means that our members show forth their vocation whenever people gather, but most of all in the market place. They do not always wait for an invitation. The most direct means by which the Order expresses this public ministry is by the wearing of the Habit, and the perpetration of their presence wherever and whenever appropriate.

Tenet 4: The Message of Perpetual Indulgence
Perpetual Indulgence is both a name and a way of life. The christian church has granted, and still grants, indulgences to its members, freeing them from the 'temporal punishment of sin'. The Order of Perpetual Indulgence, in a similar way, desires by thought, word and deed to do the same. The Order claims, for gay people, a perpetual indulgence from self-punishment, guilt and despair. It is the Order's earnest wish by that banishing the self-indulgent scruples of the closet, we can come to work more effectively to bring about change that is good, and keep our sense of humour at the same time 

(Many thanks to Mother Mary Quite Contrary and the Sydney Sisters for the use of this sacred text!)