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‘To be trans is to enter a sacred journey of becoming whole’

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tabbycatstripy · 04/04/2022 14:15

This isn’t a quotation from India Willoughby. It’s from a letter signed by senior religious leaders, including Rowan Williams, ex Archbishop of Canterbury, to Boris Johnson, urging him to ban trans conversion therapy.

I’m not a member of the CoE, but I don’t think I’m unreasonable in thinking they are going outside their religious remit. If I attended their church I would be seriously questioning whether these people shared my religious faith, and whether they had lost their ability to lead me in faith.

Be trans, don’t be trans. I don’t mind. But I don’t think it has anything to do with Christianity and see nothing in any Christian thought that would regard being trans as ‘sacred’ (obviously being kind etc is a Christian way to live your life - that’s different to calling being trans ‘sacred’).

All a bit odd.

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tabbycatstripy · 04/04/2022 14:26

God seems more easygoing by the day. It’ll be fine. Grin

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Snugglepumpkin · 04/04/2022 14:26

What a ridiculous statement to make.

There is nothing sacred about thinking you are something you are not, never have been & never can be.

Plasmodesmata · 04/04/2022 14:25

tabby I think you misgendered God there.

tabbycatstripy · 04/04/2022 14:21

And I’m not sure God - if there’s a god - is going to agree with these guys that he ‘gets it wrong sometimes’. Hmm

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tabbycatstripy · 04/04/2022 14:20

They’re really stepping it up here. People who believe what the Church of England has taught for hundreds of years have every right to feel lost by their church’s hijacking of ‘sacred’ to describe this nebulous concept.

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Pinklimey · 04/04/2022 14:19

It does seem to be a bit odd to keep repeating the old God gets it wrong sometimes mantra. However, bishops and archbishops are well known for digging into politics.

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