Posted on 06/17/2017 4:32:58 PM PDT by marshmallow
* Church of England suggests offering transgender Christians re-christenings
* Move is believed to provoke a furious backlash among some traditionalists
* Last year committee said rules that might stop people changing sex should be abolished
The Church of England yesterday suggested it will offer transgender Christians ‘re-christenings’ with their new names.
Vicars cannot re-baptise those who have changed sex but could use existing ‘services of welcome’ to announce a new name before God, the most senior official said.
The advice is likely to be endorsed next month by the Church’s parliament, the General Synod.
It will ease pressure on Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby from liberals who want to see the church’s conservative rules on sex and marriage swept away. But it is likely to provoke a furious backlash among some traditionalists.
The CofE’s most senior official, Synod Secretary General William Nye, said in a paper sent to Synod members: ‘It is a fundamental belief of the Church that baptism can only be received once.
There is therefore no possibility of the Synod approving a form of service for the re-baptism of transgendered persons in their new gender who have already been baptised.’ But he said the CofE can have no objection if they want to have an ‘Affirmation of Baptismal Faith’ service in a new name.
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yeah that trump’s minds.
I know many are freaking out, especially a lot of Catholics, over this Pope.
I’m Catholic but Jesus’ words and deeds and the Bible are all I need when my church gets lost.
And to tell others Jesus and the Bible are the path to God.
Until/unless a New Conservative REAL Christian in all ways ascends to Pope, we must be wary.
I didn’t abandon the US when obama was president. I just didn’t buy into what he was selling. Same with the church and the Pope.
Still a Catholic, but i’m not buying what Francis is selling
Yeah I have to agree.
When you DONT see reality for what it is, you have a mental illness.
Nope, he is severely restricted by what he can and cannot OFFICIALLY do in the Catholic church....Protestants have made up their own rules for over 400 years....just look at the variations among "denominations"....
Not according to the tyrant, Bergoglio.
“We Catholics have some — and not some, many — who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church.”
Bingo.
“Protestants have ALWAYS thought it O.K. to make up their own rules....sad.”
They leaned it from a few Popes.
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Makes me want to puke that people even think this stupidly, much less unBiblically.
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