"If we look at the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament, we do see something quite inclusive: the call to repentance and conversion. Jesus and his apostles include everyone in that call to conversion: the religious, the non-religious, the chaste, the unchaste, the rich, the poor, the sick, the healthy, the young, the old, the powerless, the powerful, the male, the female, the Jew, the Gentile, the stay-at-home and the prodigal. The passages in the Gospel and in the epistles showing this powerful inclusive call to repentance will automatically come to mind to those who have been reared on the Scriptures. They are too numerous to cite. So, what is inclusive about Christianity? What is radically inclusive is the call to repentance and conversion as initiated by the Precursor, John the Baptist, and carried forth by Jesus and the Apostles. In Christianity, the adjective 'inclusive' modifies the phrase 'call to repentance.' Another way of saying this is to say that God's mercy is 'inclusive,' that His love is 'inclusive.' The danger is that we tend to forget that the biblical witness is that the obstacle to God's mercy and love is our sin. Sin is the great exclusionary force in the world. It excludes us from God's friendship.

To propose that 'inclusive' refers to anything else in a Christian setting is to distort the biblical witness. In the way the term is now commonly used, it means 'non-challenging.' In effect we are saying that if we are 'inclusive,' we will not challenge the behavior of anyone, we will not confront anyone. That says more about our concern with our own personal comfort and self-image than about the Gospel. If that were the type of inclusion preached by Jesus, he would never have been executed."

CA does a rather good investigation of what it means to be included and affirmed in a Catholic community. As usual, there seen to be new things for the old names.