Posted on 06/29/2025 9:35:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Venessa Pinto, employed by the Leicester diocese of the Church of England as a lay preacher...asked him out.
"I was very taken aback, because I didn't know her. And I was like, 'I'm gay, but thank you for asking.' But she asked me if it was because she was black."
...
Hulme, then in his mid-twenties, was at a very happy juncture in his life. He was a poet and author, an assistant warden at the LGBT-friendly St Nicholas Church...
"I'm also trans, I'd come out a number of years before, and I'd finally come to a place of full and complete happiness with who I was."
...
Back in Leicester, the Church HR investigation concluded Venessa had been responsible for the abuse, to Jay's huge relief. He assumed that would be the end of it.
But almost as soon as that happened, there was an unexpected turn.
He was called into a meeting with the Bishop of Leicester, Martyn Snow - who's seen as a favourite to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England.
The bishop said he didn't believe that Venessa had been responsible for the harassment. And he wouldn't uphold Jay's complaint against her.
Then he made an extraordinary accusation about Jay.
"Somebody had given a statement that I had been seen in the church, in the darkness, with a candle – and they thought I was conducting a seance. For clarity, I was praying with a candle in the dark, because that's a thing that Christians do," says Jay.
It got worse.
Bishop Snow accused him of practising witchcraft - both because of the "seance" and the fact Jay happened to have a close friend who was a tarot card reader.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
There’s so much dysfunction and demonic activity around all involved in this. Vanessa is clearly exhibiting narcissistic rage for not getting her way and operating under a venomnous Jezebel spirit. The whole environment is evil.
If only priests were allowed to get married.
Okay, so what is this person?
A man pretending to be a woman who dates women?
Or a woman pretending to be a man who dates men?
Or ... what?
but they are fun to read...think a train wreck.
At what point do they just shut down the Church of England? Hasn’t the joke gone on long enough?
geeez...two really messed up people. They need to get off the internet, out among real people is my guess.
The story of the utter destruction of the Church of England...in a single article.
KING ARTHUR IS WEEPING UNCONTROLLABLY
Yes, terminal. Western Europe, as well.
Arthur is a myth / legend.
The King that created England and defeated the Vikings was Alfred.
The Anglo Saxon King. 🤴
a woman pretending to be a man who dates men
It is a thing.
Tragic what has happened to western civ.
I couldn’t make much sense out of who did what in that article, but it’s clear the apostasy is strong in that church.
So is the notion that a man can be a woman or visa versa.
Somebody help me here. If a man is attracted to mem is gay, right? So if the gay guy decides to be a woman, is he still gay? I have a biological female neighbor who always had a girlfriend and then she had multiple surgeries and tons of hormones so her beard and chest hair is far thicker than mine but she still has a girlfriend. If she is now a man but still has a girlfriend, is she still a lesbian?
If only hedonists didn’t try to take over everything.
The Romano-Britain remnant was pushed to Wales by the Anglo-Saxons. Arthurius was indeed a leader of this clan
Baby Reindeer is a funny British series on Netflix about a guy who has a crazy female stalker. It would be scary to have a crazy obsessive female stalker. I never had one.
Church of England—mother church of America’s Episcopal Church. They seem to be trying to outdo each other..
She is not a man and never will be.
...and yes, despite dressing like a man and taking hormones, if she has a girlfriend, she's still a lesbian.
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