WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), today denounced an anti-transgender op-ed by Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The op-ed, which stems from California AB 1266, legislation ensuring transgender students in California’s schools are treated fairly, says being transgender is “a revolt against God’s lordship, and against the picture of the gospel that God had embedded in the creation.” This assertion is based on neither scripture nor science.
“Scripture compels us to understand one another and to grow. Mr. Moore’s words seek only to silence and further ignorance and discrimination against transgender people,” said Dr. Sharon Groves, director of the HRC Religion and Faith Program. “Transgender people are part of every faith community, from the clergy to the congregation. Mr. Moore does not speak for me, as a person of devout faith, nor does he speak for so many LGBT people and our allies.”
Preeminent mainstream mental health and medical associations have issued strong policy statements advocating for transgender people. Last year, the American Psychiatric Association affirmed its commitment to transgender people and in support of access to care and civil rights for transgender individuals.
“Mr. Moore speaks neither for all people of faith nor does he speak for health experts,” said Jeff Krehely, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. “His words further ignorance and discrimination and add a burden to those already struggling with transgender bias.”
This pastor along with others who have lost their way are preaching to a declining base of seniors who remain the financial foundation of the church. Sadly ‘he’ is also a reflection of his own base and as time passes change begin to emerge on the horizon… JKL
Isaiah 56: “Do not let the foreigner joined to the LORD say, ‘The LORD will surely separate me from his people’; and do not let the eunuch say, ‘I am just a dry tree.’ For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths . . . I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters.
Mathew 19:11 and 12: Jesus told his disciples: “All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given 12: For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”
Acts 8:26-40 Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch God commands a Philip a successful pastor to travel down the road leading to Gaza where an angel of the lord instructs him to baptise a eunuch who had just been turned away by Jerusalem’s conservative churches.
So there we are, welcomed and blessed by God, Jesus and the holy ghost.
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And yet, the SBC may consider an anti-trans resolution at the convention next week. http://www.liannesimon.com/2014/06/07/church-and-dsd/