Posted on 07/02/2002 3:36:44 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A United Methodist minister suspended in June has given up her bid to become the first transsexual pastor of a Protestant church in America.
According to a short statement released by Bishop Felton Edwin May of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, the Rev. Rebecca Ann Steen
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I can't believe I am reading this!
Concerning a Protestant Church? I'm surprised that you're surprised!
I'm saddened that this bishop didn't just nail this wacko, but he didn't. Played politics, instead. Somehow, using politics, he managed to get "him" to resign permanently.
Right. If he had been an RCC priest, I suppose he just would have molested a couple of boys and gone on to become a 'bishop.' There is no room for this junk coming from the RCC -- glass houses and all.
Good thing I'm not Roman Catholic then!
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