Posted on 10/10/2022 12:02:38 PM PDT by Morgana
It has been a terrible few weeks for the transgender movement. The attorney general of the United Kingdom announced that schools are obligated to provide sex-segregated bathrooms; that teachers cannot assist children in “socially transitioning” without the knowledge of their parents; and that teachers are not necessarily obligated to use a students’ new “preferred pronouns.” Additionally, The Times broke the news that up to 1,000 families are expected to join a class-action lawsuit against the Tavistock gender clinic after an NHS report highlighted the devastating long-term implications of the treatments prescribed and performed there.
And so naturally the Episcopal Church chose this moment to issue a blanket endorsement of so-called “gender-affirming care” at any age. From the Episcopal House of Deputies Resolution:
Resolved, that the 80th General Convention calls for the Episcopal Church to advocate for access to gender affirming care in all forms (social, medical, or any other) and at all ages as part of our Baptismal call to “respect the dignity of every human being”; and be it further
Resolved, that the 80th General Convention affirms that all Episcopalians should be able to partake in gender affirming care with no restriction on movement, autonomy, or timing; and be it further
Resolved, that the 80th General Convention understands that the protection of religious liberty extends to all Episcopalians who may need or desire to access, to utilize, to aid others in the procurement of, or to offer gender affirming care; and be it further
Resolved, that this 80th General Convention supports public policies at the local, state, and national levels in all our countries to support gender affirming care.
“Gender-affirming care” is trans-speak for sex changes and puberty blockers. It means castrations for the boys; double mastectomies for the girls; and life-long drug regimens that irreversibly damage those who take them. One of the most devastating revelations in the NHS report into the Tavistock clinic is that puberty blockers likely impact brain development and decision making as well as deforming the genitals, eliminating sexual function, reducing bone growth, and destroying fertility.
Despite that — and despite warnings from clinicians and medical practitioners from France to Finland — the Episcopal Church has endorsed these practices “with no limit on timing.” As far as the Episcopalians are concerned, Johnny can get his sex change right after his public school teacher lets him know that it is an option.
This is disturbing but not surprising. The Episcopal Church has been post-Christian for some time, and has fully bought in to the premises of the transgender movement. The Anglicans have released pastoral guidance on how to perform a special “baptismal” service for transgender people with their new name and chosen gender; the Church of England has sought to actively recruit transgender clergy; former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams called on Boris Johnson to include transgenderism in his conversion therapy ban, despite warnings from experts who pointed out that it would actually prevent children from getting therapy they need to feel comfortable in their own bodies.
For a clergyman of Williams’ prominence to call for a law that would prevent pastoral care to those with unwanted gender dysphoria gives you an idea of just how far mainline Protestantism has plunged. Reading the Episcopal Church’s new declaration, a verse from Scripture came to mind:
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Episcopal isn’t really Christian.
It was written 2000 years ago......................
Catastrophic. Swam Tiber 2013. Wish I left sooner.
The fall of the Episcopal Church has been more than fifty years in the making. I already saw it during my college days many years ago.
The Episcopal “Church” has incorporated pagan worship rituals in its national meetings several times, most recently a Native American spirit incantation and dance. They also are accepting of Islam in their National Cathedral, where several Muslim services were held.
What a primitive culture the Episcopal church is becoming. They’re into child sacrifice and child mutilation and unnatural sexual relations. They’re going backwards and into darkness.
Next step is: "Episcopal Church endorses sex with children ‘at all ages’
Anyone still engaged with that seed of Satan church is complicit.
You can walk into an Episcopalian "Church" and not see one picture or reference to Jesus.
"Church" is too kind a word for these folks. Its a cult.
The Holy Sacrament of tranny surgery.
Guess this church is self-extinguishing.
Evil.
The Episcopal Church - wrong since Henry VIII.
They’re not just post-Christian - they’re post GOD
Establishment religious churches like the Episcopal Church are mostly Laodicean Churches described in Revelation 3:14-22 as “lukewarm” with Jesus standing outside the church knocking on the door to be let in. The Laodicean churches do not have Jesus Christ in their churches.
It’s all tragic, I was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church, my older brother was as well along with being an altar boy.
I always equated the Episcopal Church as being the Catholic Church that allowed Priests to get married.
Two situations really changed my mind on the church, before I was married a coworker and neighbor asked me to attend a local Episcopal church with him and his wife, I accepted and we went to the early “Conventional” service, afterwards was the “New Age” service, after attending a few Sundays we stayed for the “New Age” service, I was totally freaked out when they started doing the laying on of hands and speaking in tongues.
Later as married man we attend an Episcopal Wedding for one of my cousins.
When the priest came in wearing blue jeans and a plaid shirt with a boom box on his shoulder for the music, I was needless to say surprised.
Certainly not the Catholic Church with married priests.
When are they going to legalize sex change operations in the womb.
Which is why I left the Episcopal Church 30 years ago.
Sad day for anyone who held out hope.
The episcopal church remains true to the values of its founder, the decadent, hedonistic heretic Henry VIII. No serious, decent, rational person I know is a practicing Episcopalian.
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