Sex-change vicar back in pulpit (old news from 2000 but still interesting!)

BBC ^ | Sunday, 3 December, 2000, 15:29 GMT | BBC

[Cronos]

The first Church of England vicar to undergo a sex-change operation returned to a warm welcome from parishioners on Sunday.

Around 100 people attended the service at St Philip's Church in Upper Stratton, Swindon, Wiltshire.

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"After almost 23 years of preaching I felt like a young curate again preparing for one's first sermon."

Ms Stone, who has been married twice and has a daughter, was dressed in purple robes and wore a pair of gold ear-rings

She compared her return to a scene from the classic children's tales of Pooh bear by A A Milne.

[Cronos]

The vicar related how Pooh had gathered with his friends on a bridge to gaze at the river and told them that everyone was alright apart from him - only to be reassured by Christopher Robin.

Ms Stone said: "If Pooh were here today, I'd like to think he would say the same about me - that I too was alright, as indeed you are."

--> thanks to the Freeper who pointed this out -- it was too funny to not post again. I apologize for this being a decade late, but...:-0

[Pollster1]

This is NOT the Winnie the Pooh I read to my children!

Nor is “Ms. Stone” a woman, any more than a man whose genitals are removed by accident becomes a woman by virtue of amputation.

[Jmouse007]

Wicked, godlessness on the part of the “church” of England; a perverted, ungodly, sinful man, totally hardened in sin and destined for the Lake of Fire being applauded and put in a positon of authority within the ministry and the so-called “church”, where he can influence others with his damnable ways and lifestyle. No wonder, England is rapidly destined for the dust bin of history and God’s judgment.

[element92]

this is sick beyond words

[timeflies]

I agree.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Before

After:

Surgery did not alter the intrinsically disordered nature of the individual's psyche.