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Bishop Katherine celebrates transgender Jesus
VirtueOnline ^ | 21 June A.D. 2006 | Hans Zeiger

Posted on 06/21/2006 12:53:53 PM PDT by lightman

COLUMBUS, OH: Bishop Katherine celebrates transgender Jesus

By Hans Zeiger VirtueOnline Correspondent www.virtueonline.org

COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/21/06)-While addressing a morning Eucharist at the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop-elect Katherine Jefferts Schori declared, "Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation. And you and I are His children."

With Jefferts Schori as the leader-to-be of the Episcopal Chuch, it seems that the church will move beyond gender-inclusive language to transgender-inclusive language.

Yesterday however, the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops refused to even consider a resolution that would affirm the exclusive Lordship of Jesus Christ as "the only name by which any person may be saved." The Rev. Canon Eugene McDowell of the Diocese of North Carolina explained, "This type of language was used in 1920s and 1930s to alienate the type of people who were executed. It was called the Holocaust."

Perhaps Episcopalians would be more receptive of a resolution affirming the supreme transexuality of


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant
KEYWORDS: anglican; apostates; blasphemy; columbus; ecusa; episcopal; fakebishop; gayagenda; homosexualagenda; hurl; jeffertsschori; jesus; jesushaters; notchristian; radicalleftists; schori; transvestites; waronjesus
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To: lightman
Um... leaving aside for a moment the fact that Jesus is the SONof God, what does she say to the fact that there's historical records about a MAN named Jesus of Nazareth?
21 posted on 06/21/2006 1:30:40 PM PDT by mikemach5
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To: ichabod1
She sounds pretty nice, but its still dumping on conservatives.

Oh, I think "dumping on conservatives" is quite a propos. Here she is with Louie Crew (LC in bold, Source: The Witness):

What about those who seem bent and determined to leave or to wound the body if they don't get their own way?

I think they need to be challenged, more so than they have been. I see signs of hope in the House of Bishops, an unwillingness to continue to put up with bad behavior. We haven't seen any action yet, but I think it is coming.

Do you have any sense of what that action might be? Would a verbal rebuke be enough?

It won't be enough in some cases, I am sure. But I have the sense that there is some desire to hold each other accountable for actions that are not canonical, for actions that have the appearance of being downright schismatic.

She sounds downright inclusive, no?
22 posted on 06/21/2006 1:30:55 PM PDT by Carolina
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To: ConservativeMind

The laity got lazy after WWII.


23 posted on 06/21/2006 1:39:26 PM PDT by bobjam
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To: defconw; Fudd Fan

Lord have mercy.


24 posted on 06/21/2006 1:41:27 PM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names.)
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To: AliVeritas

Primal Scream Here!


25 posted on 06/21/2006 1:42:50 PM PDT by defconw (Forever a Snowflake! Yes I am a Bushbot, so what of it?)
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To: lightman

Now that is an abomination.


26 posted on 06/21/2006 1:43:47 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: ArrogantBustard

She must have had several of those brownies the night before...


27 posted on 06/21/2006 1:44:48 PM PDT by bobjam
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jez'ebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality.

Behold, I will throw her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her doings; and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.

Revelation 2:20-23


28 posted on 06/21/2006 1:48:40 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: lightman

This is the kind of nonsense one might hear at the local Unitarian church on any given Sunday.


29 posted on 06/21/2006 2:04:28 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: bobjam

Perchance she was drinking mushroom soup?


30 posted on 06/21/2006 2:07:07 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: lightman
Believe it or not, I've heard worse IMO: an Easter message delivered by an ELCA pastor focusing on butterflies and flowers. Resurrection Sunday, and no mention of the Gospel or Jesus' redeeming us from sin - just a tale of finding encouragement in butterflies and flowers, nature's symbols that we can hope for a fresh beginning.

Still, this ranks up there with that. Swap out the butterflies for this trans-gendered Jesus, and the message is similar.

31 posted on 06/21/2006 2:12:37 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Colossians 4:6)
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To: BipolarBob

*snicker*


32 posted on 06/21/2006 4:11:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.")
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To: lightman

Blasphemy.


33 posted on 06/21/2006 4:12:24 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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To: ichabod1
There is actually some theological basis for what she said, but it still sounds very strange. Jesus is both mother and father to us.

While Jesus can do whatever He wants, technically speaking He is neither mother *or* father. He's the Son of God (or God the Son).
34 posted on 06/21/2006 4:21:33 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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To: lightman

I am just shaking my head...

To the traditional Anglican FReepers out there, my prayers are with you.


35 posted on 06/21/2006 4:44:45 PM PDT by markomalley (Vivat Iesus!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I taaaalllkkk to the buuunnnniiiees and they taaaaalllllkkk to meeeeeeeeeee....


36 posted on 06/21/2006 4:50:12 PM PDT by livius
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To: lightman

This is what St. Paul had in mind when he bade women be silent in church.


37 posted on 06/21/2006 5:16:10 PM PDT by Loyalist (Dissonance And Disrespect: http://dissonanceanddisrespect.blogspot.com)
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To: lightman

ARRGGGHHHH! Sometimes I wish God was still into the fire and brimstone thing. or maybe just a wee bit of a plague?

Between the New Yorkers not allowing a skating rink to play Christian music on a skate night and these churches becoming touchy-feely social clubs...think my head's gonna bust open.


38 posted on 06/21/2006 5:19:21 PM PDT by madison10
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To: ConservativeMind
How did the corruption in the Episcopal church ever get so deep?

They fired all their hellfire and damnation preachers.

Now they preach an inclusive message, where sin is nonexistent and God is a fairy.

39 posted on 06/21/2006 5:24:39 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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To: Alex Murphy
...an Easter message delivered by an ELCA pastor focusing on butterflies ...

Outside our local ELCA church there is a cross with a large butterfly on it. A Monarch, I think.

40 posted on 06/21/2006 5:33:38 PM PDT by omega4412 (Multiculturalism kills. 9/11, Beslan, Madrid, London)
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