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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Less so than any comparable group.
Better put the church leadership, as a whole, has had great difficulty dealing with their criminal element...which makes them an accessory to the fact. That is what makes the difference.......Additionally because religious and spiritual blackmail was used all the worse when it came to these crimes.
I never heard a catholic refer to their Priests as a “group”. I thought the membership see’s them above the average man with direct contact with their maker? Guess I was wrong.
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When you think about it, he/she could probably make this her/his song (with minor modifications):
The Church teaches that everyone is called to holiness,and to have "direct contact with their Maker"-- not only priests. The really important, and really interesting people in Catholicism are not the priests, or even the popes, but the saints.
I’m late to the party. What is a “transgendered man”? My first inclination based on wording alone is that it is a man who has undergone a procedure in an attempt to “become” a woman. But I assume that in accepted media-speak, what happened is the opposite: a woman underwent a procedure and “became” a “transgendered man.” Is this right? This is downright confusing.
I’d this a guy who had his think split open? Or a woman who had her’s sewn shut?
It’s an individual who has made the change from female-to-male.
Another fake religion. You can’t be true to religion if you have a FREAK as a priest.
The Episcopal Church has been downplaying Bible miracles for years. It has been downplaying the sin of fornication for years. It has been downplaying the need of people not to wear extremely revealing clothing for a long time. Anything goes, apparently. All I can say is that if there is a difference between the Episcopal Church and Atheism, that gap is shrinking very fast.
I always ask this question: Does a transgendered person have a uterus stick in them as part of the operation. If not, then they’re still a man with a cut and paste operation and a steroid regimen made legitimate by his/her own delusions, whereas I would, on the other hand, be arrested for getting caught or testing positive for using a sex hormone known as Testerone a.k.a. Anabolic Steroids, gotta love the double standard.
Maybe not. Put in mind the big split was to justify marital annulment for casual reasons as the monarch couldn’t get himself a son from his wife. (How about change the rules to let a woman be the queen, so that she can marry a husband to be king?) Either way, I digress, the reason for this split wasn’t good, the long divergence is pretty much the consequence.
Unitarianism is for people who for some reason want to play at church, without actually doing church. It’s for liberals who don’t actually want to be Christians, but wanna sorta worship something like Christians do while supporting liberal causes. The best we can come up with is the desire God has placed in the human spirit to worship something.
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