Wow
From the BBC, the CofE is off charting new frontiers again:
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The Bishop of Hereford has defended the decision to ordain a transsexual woman as a priest.Hmm. I never thought of it that way.
Assistant curate Sarah Jones, 43, from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, was born as Colin Jones and spent the first 33 years of her life living as a man.
Evangelical group Evangelical Alliance said there was no "Christian acknowledgement" of gender realignment.
But the Right Reverend Anthony Priddis said Ms Jones - being ordained on Saturday - was "made and loved by God".
Ms Jones was a "superb candidate" who had the gender realignment surgery "many years ago - long before she explored the possibility of being ordained", Bishop Priddis said.
The issue of gender dysphoria was "understood a lot more clearly in this 21st century as we understand lots of things more clearly", he said.
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posted by Rocco Palmo at 21:29
1 Comments:
"It's strange. The people who object to ordaining women normally also take the position that Sarah/Colin is a man, surgery or no surgery.
So they shouldn't object to his ordination on the ground that he/she's a woman."
I think the normal ground for objection is that there is a canonical impediment for those who have seriously mutilated themselves. If this transsexual were ordained by a Catholic bishop, it would be a valid ordination, because "she" is a male.
I am aware that, while Bishop of LaCrosse, then Raymond Burke obtained the necessary approvals from Rome to permit a transsexual man-to-woman take religious vows as a woman. It would be interesting to know the whole story behind this. The liberal alt press was critical of this in connection with the sex abuse crisis (huh?) as well as a few lone-ranger "watchdogs of the magisterium" types.
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