Posted on 07/10/2017 11:51:54 AM PDT by detective
The General Synod of the Church of England has officially passed a motion welcoming and affirming transgender people to the church. A top bishop also declared that being LGBT is "not a sin."
"That this Synod, recognizing the need for transgender people to be welcomed and affirmed in their parish church, call on the House of Bishops to consider whether some nationally commended liturgical materials might be prepared to mark a person's gender transition," the motion that passed on Sunday reads.
As the official CofE website points out, the vote went overwhelmingly in favor of welcoming transgender people, with 30 for the motion and two opposed in the House of Bishops; 127 who backed the motion and 28 against it in the House of Clergy; and 127 for and 48 against in the House of Laity.
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Sorry God, we’ve overridden your veto. Heaven is no longer a kingdom, it’s a democracy, we’re letting everyone in.
Liberalism is a terminal disease.
You can’t translate your way out of what the Scripture says.....sorry, CofE
Face it, the only sins in the CoE involve free speech, free thought, and elementary logic.
Better bring back guns, U.K.
You are going to need them.
Let the dead bury their own dead.
No such thing any more as “The Church.”
Christian and Jewish groups leadership have been guilty accomplices to tearing core laws to smithers and smugly patting themselves on their backs and elsewhere. They’ve been told that 20th century Marxist/”progressives” can be trusted on an understand God’s will better than anyone in four millennia and better than God’s word itself.
Great advice! Jesus said there would be days like this and then the end would come.
The Church of England might think homosexuality is not a sin but I really think God does.
Well, I guess that clears that up. The CofE (CovFefe?) don’t need no stinkin’ Bible.
For these followers of man, the teachings of Christ is just one big smorgasbord. Eat what you want. Oh yes, if you’re hoping to find the soup sandwich, it’s not there. It will never be there if you are a follower of Christ. If you follow Christ, you will get an almighty banquet; not some leftovers and bits and pieces of cheap dishes on a steam table in hell.
God begs to differ.
Not really. He doesn’t beg.
It’s amazing how fast the society can be altered. The left has this down to a science and winning. God is mocked by these idiots. Those who invoke Jesus Christ for their behavior are disgusting.
Not a big deal.
In 20 years, the Grand Imam of England will declare it a sin again.
Homosexuality is a sin.
No such thing as transgender.
People need to stop identifying themselves by their sin.
I don’t see people going around bragging that they are liars, crooks, murderers, etc.
When deciding whether a specific action is sinful, I would believe the Bible over an alleged Bishop in the Church of England. What explanation could this “Bishop” possibly give that outweighs the clear prohibitions in scripture?
I think it can be justified that a mental illness is not a sin. Is that what this "top bishop" is saying?
It's not my place to say whether two men shagging each other is a sin or not but I can't say it is what I would call natural either.
Not a big deal.
In 20 years, the Grand Imam of England will declare it a sin again.
psy·cho·sissīˈkōsəs/noun
a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
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