Posted on 12/03/2025 6:42:53 AM PST by V_TWIN
A Methodist pastor in New York revealed last week plans to transition into a woman and said the 51-year-old now identifies as asexual.
Rev. Phillip Phaneuf, of North Chili United Methodist Church in Rochester, made the announcement during a Nov. 23 Sunday service.
The personal update was delivered from the pulpit while wearing a rainbow stole.
“So I get to announce with joy that I’m transitioning,” Phaneuf said. “I’m affirming to all of you that I am transgender. The best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man. This is a process, and it may be shocking for some as to what this all means.”
Phaneuf added that the pastor’s sexuality is now asexual, an orientation in which a person experiences little or no sexual attraction to others.
“I’m in the category of what they call asexual,” Phaneuf said. “I’ve been that way since we’ve all been together, in that I am not living my life in a way that involves looking for romance.”
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GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY......DO NOT view the pictures on a full stomach......consider yourself warned.
This is no pastor by any measure in my book.
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Congrats to the Methodists who moved their local churches out of the hedonist pushing UMC denomination into the Bible centric GMC denomination. I know many of you took on much in legal and financial hardships to do the right thing.
so if he asexual, why the woman dress up?
It’s all about MEEEE. Forget the Lord, or the appropriateness of announcing your narcissism in a place that forgot worship.
So now "he" is going to pretend to be a woman.
Just the church returning back to paganism.
Oh good lord - you’re not transitioning because you think you’re asexual. It means you just don’t have sexual attraction!
Retard.
That’s the moment I stand up and walk out slowly. As I’m leaving I might even say in an even,mild voice...”God will not be mocked!”
The ‘Pagans’ seem to have been pretty clear on the issues of human biology and sex.
If I had been at that church, I would have walked out then and there. I’m not going to seek guidance from someone who doesn’t know the difference between a boy and a girl.
Yup—Genesis 1...revised revision of the revised edition.
“In the beginning there was me me me me me me me....”
I knew I had seen this before..... (Chris Farley SNL)
"I identify as a woman."
~"I identify as outta here."
Like a dog returning to his vomit, I had to look. I think he’s cute in a Tommy Boy sort of way.
I’m giving up pretending to be a man
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That’s probably not the first red flag some in this flock has witnessed with this pastor.
But where one should see red flags, some pretend it’s a pretty rainbow flag
You said it before I did.
The ridiculous attempt at seductive-looking glamour shots seem to belie the notion that he is asexual. If you are asexual then at least look asexual.
So his brain has decided the heavens plopped his spirit into a biologically wrong body??
Didn’t we - correctly - use to define such a mind as one with a mental illness? And isn’t it still a mental illness?
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