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Transgender Passé, Meet the Non-Binary Clergy
The Institute on Religion & Democracy ^ | 7 February A.D. 2020 | Clare Hepler

Posted on 02/07/2020 7:30:05 PM PST by lightman

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KYRIE ELEISON!

1 posted on 02/07/2020 7:30:05 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman

If that picture weren’t tragic and dangerous, it might have been funny.


2 posted on 02/07/2020 7:31:25 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: lightman

Yeah you want THAT THING “ministering” to you and your kids?


3 posted on 02/07/2020 7:31:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: aberaussie; Aeronaut; aliquando; AlternateViewpoint; AnalogReigns; Archie Bunker on steroids; ...


Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Be rooted in Christ!

4 posted on 02/07/2020 7:32:08 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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To: lightman

They don’t have this in Islam for some reason.


5 posted on 02/07/2020 7:37:41 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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Initially Barclay, then known as Mary Ann Kaiser, was denied a commission by the board of the Southwest Texas Conference in 2014 on account of being a “self-avowed, practicing” lesbian in a same-sex relationship. Later in June of 2017, Barclay was commissioned in the Northern Illinois Conference as a provisional deacon.

Oh, I get it. She couldn't get it as a lesbian. But if she is "non-binary" and therefore not, in her mind, a woman, and has sex with women,she isn't a lesbian.

I'm not surprised that she got declined in Texas and got accepted in Northern Illinois. That conference has been the devil's cesspool for decades.

I grew up in the UMC in southern Illinois. My home church was the best church I've ever been a member of. When I think back on the fine pastors and laypeople I knew back then, I'm glad they didn't live to see this.

6 posted on 02/07/2020 7:40:28 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance; Honorary Serb
They don’t have this in Islam for some reason.

We don't have this in the Holy Orthodox Church for similar but different reasons.

Vive la differance!

7 posted on 02/07/2020 7:41:17 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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50 years of Monty Python made it all seem so everyday...


8 posted on 02/07/2020 7:46:17 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: lightman

Glad to see someone else make this observation.
I myself have made this observation quite some time ago. I noticed, that while we read on a regular basis the perversion among many in the Catholic and Protestant churches I do not recall a single article outlining these same issues of rampant perversion in any of the Orthodox Christian churches.
And, I’ve wondered why. What is it about the Orthodox Christian churches that these issues of rampant perversion does not manifest within that Christian community?


9 posted on 02/07/2020 7:52:35 PM PST by ocrp1982 (ll)
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To: lightman

Abomination.


10 posted on 02/07/2020 7:55:41 PM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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To: lightman

Pedos. Attracting to asexual beings without developed sexual organs, is what they basically intimate


11 posted on 02/07/2020 8:04:36 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ocrp1982

“What is it about the Orthodox Christian churches that these issues of rampant perversion does not manifest within that Christian community?”

Explore:

http://www.goarch.org

http://www.antiochian.org

We share the first 1054 years of history with Western Christianity but parted ways before the abuses which led to the Protestant Reformation.

We adhere to the canons and decrees of the Seven Ecumenical Councils...canons which restrict the presbyteriate (Priesthood) to males and which prohibit marriage after Ordination. They also prohibit continuing in Priestly ministry after Divorce.

We have used the same liturgy and lectionary for sixteen centuries.

We sing a capella without “praise bands” but our Troparia are truly the “praise choruses” of antiquity. And unlike modern “praise choruses” which focus on the most unholy trinity of me, myself, and I; ours focus on the undivided and consubstantial Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.


12 posted on 02/07/2020 8:12:57 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27 NASB

I guess they didn't read the manual.

13 posted on 02/07/2020 8:13:41 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: lightman

The big question is, what do non-binary clergy do around the children of the congregation? It can’t be normal. (Assuming that their parents are foolish enough to let their children anywhere near these clergy.)


14 posted on 02/07/2020 8:22:49 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: lightman; left that other site; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; ...
"An increasing number of individuals who identify as “gender non-binary” have emerged among the clerical ranks in mainline Protestant denominations."

Satan is destroying Christian sects at an alarming rate. Where are the people to stand up this evil ?

15 posted on 02/07/2020 8:25:35 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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I’m sure THAT is a very “hands-on” ‘minister’ with young people.


16 posted on 02/07/2020 8:26:43 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I identify as half dog and half cat.

I chase myself all day and the furniture is ruined.


17 posted on 02/07/2020 8:28:21 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: lightman

Just wondering - do they refer to the Father and the Son? Or do they use non-gendered language like “the Progenitor” and “the Offspring”?


18 posted on 02/07/2020 8:29:20 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The Institute on Religion and Democracy:

https://juicyecumenism.com/

There exists a “faithful remnant” in every “mainline” denomination, and these brave clergy and laity need intense prayerful support for they are engaged in everything described in Ephesians 6.

PM me for more.


19 posted on 02/07/2020 8:29:22 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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To: dp0622

I’ll bet your house smells like San Francisco.


20 posted on 02/07/2020 8:33:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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