Posted on 05/26/2018 6:31:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Transgender people are being encouraged to become Church of England vicars as bishops launch a diversity drive.
Bishops in the diocese of Lichfield have issued new guidance to parishioners and clergy reminding them that LGBT people "can be called to roles of leadership and service in the local church".
The guidance, titled "welcoming and honouring LGBT+ people", warns that the church's reputation as being unwelcoming towards gay and transgender people is stopping young people attending.
"We very much hope that they, like everyone else, feel encouraged to serve on PCCs, or as churchwardens and worship leaders, for instance, and are supported in exploring vocations to licensed lay and ordained ministries," the guidance says.
"Nobody should be told that their sexual or gender identity in itself makes them an unsuitable candidate for leadership in the Church."
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LIB lunacy gone wild. What could possibly go wrong when you invite the mentally ill into your priesthood? Idiots.
Absolutely - I dont want moral or religious guidance from someone who thinks God made them wrong and requires technology to be the right sex.
On ramp to the broad way that leads to destruction.
Looks like the Church of England adheres to The Nine Suggestions.
Die-versity.
Trans individuals may need to design their very own religion, vs trying to make orthodox faiths accept them as is.
A church born in sin, returning to it as a dog to its vomit.
I would not belong to a church that desires to have as priests people who are so mentally deranged they reject their own biology, in effect rejecting God.
Why not open the door to all mentally confused persons as advisers?
Schizophrenics, anorexics, bulimics, active drug addicts, and more should be counseling the congregations, no???
Liberalism is a mental disorder. No joke.
The Leftist activist leaders from the 60s were sick in the head. Some eventually committed suicide, but not before taking a generation down with them.
The Road to Hell is paved with Anglicans I see!
The Road to Hell is paved with Anglicans I see!
An immorality drive.
Where was the projectile vomit alert?
More trash from another Post-Christian Church.
You would get something close to Discordianism.
Also, how does trannyism square with most libs who tend to be devoutly eco conscious? They live a back to nature lifestyle, to the greatest extent possible. Only all natural foods, nothing prepared or out of a box. They believe in with folk remedies and a holistic approach to health care, some oppose vaccinations because they cause some imbalance in nature. What can be more UNNATURAL than altering the sexual apparatus one was born with, surgically and chemically. What’s more UNNATURAL than pumping someone up with more testosterone and/or estrogen than one’s body was naturally designed to handle. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature, they say. Unless there’s some drug free, surgery free, holistic all natural way to perform chopadikoffames or addadictomes?
If altered sex parts are a resume enhancer for this church, then I suppose those with a really cool selection of tattoos and piercings (customizations) are also being sought out for church leadership, no?
I have officially seen it ALL.
Fewer than a million people attend Church of England services any given Sunday. A quarter of congregations have no children. I don’t know that at this point it makes any difference what they do.
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