Posted on 05/29/2019 6:13:37 AM PDT by NRx
The Rev. John Parker is living out the future of Christians under wokeness:
A vicar has resigned following a bitter dispute with his bishop over the way a Church of England school handled an eight-year-old pupil’s plan to change gender.
The Reverend John Parker, a governor at the school, supported the boy’s wish to become a girl [I’m told by an unofficial C. of E. clerical source that this is not true — RD] but said he was silenced when he raised concerns that parents and pupils would be kept in the dark.
He also feared that staff and governors had been misled by the transgender lobby group Mermaids, which had been invited in to advise the school.
After his worries were dismissed by the bishop, Mr Parker quit the church where he had been a vicar for 14 years, and also the school after seven years as governor.
In an emotive resignation letter to his bishop, Mr Parker wrote of his fear that children were being ‘sacrificed on the altar of trans ideology’, even in Church schools.
Mr Parker said last night: ‘I was basically told by my bishop that if I wished to faithfully follow the teachings of the Bible then I was no longer welcome in the Church. It felt very much like I was being silenced by the Church and the school.’
Read the whole story. It includes a recording the Rev. Parker made of a school training session by transgender advocate group Mermaids, in which he, as an Oxford-trained biologist, politely tried to question the scientific claims the presenter was making, and was aggressively shut down.
Oh, there’s this:
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7070773/Vicar-resigns-schools-plan-eight-year-old-pupils-sex-change-secret-parents.html
Lord Jesus, please come back soon.
I’m confused by the title describing the Bishop as “woke”. Please clarify, thanks.
There's his problem right there. He's attempting to use real science in an era when feelings are more important than facts.
It goes both ways. It could be said the Vicar is ‘woke’, woke to the dangers of misleading children to deny fundamental biology.
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