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 is something terminally wrong with England.
Babylon BBC?
And something terminally wrong with posts like this. Worthless news. No offense.
When the mentally ill collide.
The people and the organization. Warped out of all semblance to Christian civilization.
“A preacher asked me out. When I turned her down”
‘I’m gay, but thank you for asking.’ But she asked me if it was because she was black.”
“I’m also trans”—”He was exploring his Christian faith and considering the possibility of training to become a priest in the coming years.”
Church and religion used to be so much less complicated.
Wow. You ain’t kidding. And all the people in this story are nuts. Including the victim. What the hell is a gay trans? And the perpetrator got treated with kid gloves and slap on the wrist from the legal system. And the topper was the “bishop’s” accusation of witchcraft. These people essentially tislly don’t believe in God, but they believe in witchcraft?
Also because he looks like one.
They should put him on one side of a scale and a duck on the other.
[”I’m gay” “I’m also trans,”]
The Devil you say....
I gotta ask, was she nekkid?
It makes the Muslim takeover more understandable. Pretty soon Jay and Vanessa will make spectacular dives off of building roofs. Three psychotic entities meet with predictable results. England is dead.
Obviously.
Or rather, they do actually believe in God, they just refuse to follow and obey Him.
That wouldn’t be surprising at all.
Sadly.
And they have only themselves to blame.
I suppose that's one way to de-transition. Become "transsexual" and then become "gay." You're right back where you started! Except maybe you're missing some original equipment.
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