Posted on 06/09/2014 12:18:09 PM PDT by massmike
The Washington National Cathedral is welcoming the first openly transgendered Episcopal priest to its altar this month.
The Rev. Cameron Partridge, a transgendered man, is set to give the June 22 sermon at the cathedral, a fixture in the D.C. skyline and one of the nation’s most well-known houses of worship.
“We at Washington National Cathedral are striving to send a message of love and affirmation, especially to LGBT youth who suffer daily because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” Mr. Hall said. “We want to proclaim to them as proudly and unequivocally as we can: Your gender identity is good and your sexual orientation is good because that’s the way that God made you.”
Mr. Partridge is the Episcopal chaplain at Boston University and a lecturer and counselor for Episcopal and Anglican students at the Harvard Divinity School. He completed his transition to male in 2001, according to Boston University, and has a wife and two children.
Rev. Hall also announced that the Right Rev. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal priest, would be presiding the same service with Mr. Partridge. He retired from his post as a bishop in New Hampshire and now works at the Center for American Progress.
The service caps two weeks of LGBT advocacy for the cathedral. It participated in this year’s Capital Pride events, and Mr. Hall said the service would include readings by local LGBT community members.
Last year the National Cathedral made headlines when its leaders announced that the church would perform same-sex marriages.
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Yes it is. However, is IS impossible to change genders.
A "transgendered" male does NOT become female, so matter how much silicon he puts in places. He'll never have a uterus, clitoris, vagina, vaginal tract or mammary glands.
He is just a GELDING with a "twin" silicon chest.
I wonder if hair grows on his implants. Lol. Boy would that be ooogly.
He WILL age like a man: receding hairline, hair in his ears and long nose hair.
He's not the first transgender I've seen. The one I used to see was a fireman who wanted to be a woman. He changed his name to a woman's name, wore dresses and a HORRIBLE blond wig. However, he still had all the man-muscles, the hairy legs, arms and face.
HORRIBLE thought: transgender causing "beard burn" to his latest lover. Ugh.
“Whet used to be a national house of worship is name a place of apostasy.”
I was with a choir there about ten years ago. I considered it such an honor at the time. Wouldn’t go back now.
I think that all this pandering to the LGBT peoples will tear denominations and churches apart.
Churches are starting to confront how to deal with homosexuality and LGBT matters. We are normalizing homosexual marriage in our civil laws. But as of now, a major bulwark against this trend has been organized religions.
If some denominations cave in and start doing homosexual marriages, I predict that they will lose many members, who will exit to find one of the remaining Bible believing churches.
As someone said on another thread, why is homosexuality special? If we were talking about any other sinful behanior, we would not be telling people that God made you that way, so go ahead and keep sinning. Yet on the sin of homosexual behavior, that’s the direction we’re headed.
Must be with that STUPID hat. Shades of Harvey Milk.
WHAT an insult to his God, faith and congregation.
Looks more like a dopey geezer dressed as a clown to me.
That’s Vicky Eugene Robertson, the first homosexual Episcopal bishop.
Well at least it helps sort out the sheep from the goats and lets people know when they are in a satanic church.
The joke is that MALES give the X or Y to the baby, so MEN cast the, er, "deciding vote" for gender.
It sure does. It makes it public.
“I think that all this pandering to the LGBT peoples will tear denominations and churches apart.”
Of course it will, that’s the whole point. Forcing our society to pretend that “transgenderism” is normal is just one more step in the dismantling of our Judeo-Christian culture.
All that faith in God and belief in right and wrong makes it difficult to institute tyranny.
Episcopalians can’t play chess. They don’t know the difference between a bishop and a queen.
Pumped full of hormones, her true sex will seep through as she ages.
There WILL be a reckoning.
How sad for his family, friends and parishioners.
Are there NO consequences for him?
Has he NO one to whom he must report or be accountable to?
Is there NO bishop to de-frock him?
Huh? They were ECSTATIC when they appointed him! Which century are you in?
You bet: receding hairline, LOTS of ear and nose hair and pot belly--just like ANY OLD MAN 101.
I wonder how s/he manages facial hair?
They?? ALL his congregation felt this way? Hmmmmm. I wonder.
NOTHING will chance the original DNA.
The denomination as a whole. How his congregation felt I have no idea.
True. Nothing will change it either.
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