What religion did you say was weird?
Transgender Pastor's Fate to Be Decided
(Nashville, Tenn.) -- The highest court for the United Methodist Church is taking up the case of a minister who changed gender from female to male.
The Reverend Ann Gordon had spent five years as minister at St. John's United Methodist Church in Baltimore before undergoing surgery and hormone therapy to become the Reverend Drew Phoenix.
Bishop John Schol of the Methodists' Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference reappointed Phoenix this spring as pastor of the church, noting that the denomination's Book of Discipline says nothing about transgender clergy.
The Judicial Council, scheduled to meet Oct. 24th-27th in San Francisco, will look at whether the Board of Ordained Ministry should conduct a review if a pastor changes gender, and whether the denomination allows transgender people to be appointed as Methodist ministers at all.
(Nashville, Tenn.) -- The highest court for the United Methodist Church is taking up the case of a minister who changed gender from female to male.
The Reverend Ann Gordon had spent five years as minister at St. John's United Methodist Church in Baltimore before undergoing surgery and hormone therapy to become the Reverend Drew Phoenix.
Bishop John Schol of the Methodists' Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference reappointed Phoenix this spring as pastor of the church, noting that the denomination's Book of Discipline says nothing about transgender clergy.
The Judicial Council, scheduled to meet Oct. 24th-27th in San Francisco, will look at whether the Board of Ordained Ministry should conduct a review if a pastor changes gender, and whether the denomination allows transgender people to be appointed as Methodist ministers at all.
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... or the Las Vegas Churches (sorry for the caps).
THIS MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOSE OF YOU NOT LIVING IN LAS VEGAS, BUT THERE ARE MORE CATHOLIC CHURCHES THAN CASINOS.
NOT SURPRISINGLY, SOME WORSHIPPERS AT SUNDAY SERVICES WILL GIVE CASINO CHIPS RATHER THAN CASH WHEN THE BASKET IS PASSED.
SINCE THEY GET CHIPS FROM MANY DIFFERENT CASINOS, THE CHURCHES HAVE DEVISED A METHOD TO COLLECT THE OFFERINGS.
THE CHURCHES SEND ALL THEIR COLLECTED CHIPS TO A NEARBY FRANCISCAN MONASTERY FOR SORTING AND THEN THE CHIPS ARE TAKEN TO THE CASINOS OF ORIGIN AND CASHED IN.
THIS IS DONE BY THE CHIP MONKS!
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You would never know it on here because of my rants about religion but I was raised Methodist,,I still went to our family church several times a year until they started their "open hearts open minds open door" policy,,where they voted it was Ok for open homosexuals to pastor a church and tell me why I am sinning and whats wrong with me,,now dont get me wrong I know several homosexuals and good friends with a few but if you are living that lifestyle you have no place preaching to me about sin 0 -
jokes like that keep people from becoming literate. [^][:I] 0 -
I'll have you know that I'm an illiterate Methodist, myself!
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quote:Originally posted by select-fire
What religion did you say was weird?
Most all...0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
I'll have you know that I'm an illiterate Methodist, myself!
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Methodists are just Baptists who can read.0 -
I think they call that surgery an "addadicktome". 0 -
I know a preacher that converted from Baptist to Methodist. He said the Methodist had better benefits. [:D] 0 -
what did they do with the spare vagina then? sell it on ebay? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
what did they do with the spare vagina then? sell it on ebay?
It went to New Orleans... to build another dike.0
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