House Bill 68, which may limit gender-affirming health care for trans children, has some vociferous Christian voices in favor of it. In the secular world, we may n’t pass laws based on people’s trust, but since it has been brought up, as a called and ordained minister in the church of God, I have one or two things to say about it.
Neither I nor the entire Religious beliefs are represented by the voices in favor of this bill. In fact, there are tens of thousands of gay and transgender people among the Christian honest, and they detest bills and theologies like these. The booming Christian voices do n’t represent me. They do not represent my parishioners, my household, or my community. They do not yet represent the majority of Christians who identify as conservative.
According to a recent Fox News poll, 86 % of respondents believe it is problematic for transgender people to be the target of political episodes. The United States is not in pursuit of these anti-trans laws.
Additionally, there is a statistically significant increase in the likelihood that transgender people will experience murder as patients rather than perpetrators. I wish young women did n’t have to worry about being attacked by men. And I would like for us to hold the responsible parties accountable rather than succumb to fear techniques.
Jesus of Nazareth’s information and life advocated for the radical inclusion of those who were viewed as intolerable by those around him. Trans people are created in the likeness and image of God exactly as they are, according to my trust and the faith of countless numbers of different people. In other words, they were created as transgender people in the image and likeness of God.
Our Bibles ‘ first creation account is lovely; it is a love letter to the natural world’s untamed beauty and our place in it. It stems from the question that first citizens felt as they surveyed their surroundings. Could this be? This was made by who? God, they declared. God created this and deemed it to be nice. And so it was. The book of Genesis states that” Male and female God created them,” and that makes impression, right? Usually, we see both men and women. But the depths of the Bible go far beyond appearances. Literature is the Bible.
Hebrew reading is known as a merism, in which two ends are named and then everything in between is included. God has a hand in both the good and the bad, and everything in between, according to the verse in Isaiah where He says,” I form light and create darkness, I make weal and creat woe.” According to Jewish and Christian practices, God is omnipresent, divine, and all-encompassing. God is made up of both men and women, as well as everything in between. And God made beings, both sexes and everything in between, in the image and likeness of God.
Many years ago, a parishioner of mine used to say,” God do n’t make any mistakes.” My transgender friends ‘ realization of their true selves is not the result of God making a mistake or of them misinterpreting God’s design. They were made in a fearsome and wonderful way because they are transgender.
The day my child came over to me, I was ecstatic because of the safety and trust they felt in me to share that aspect of their lives. Being their mother makes me proud. I even dread having to get their mother. When will someone assault or insult them because they are unable to identify their identity? Did they shave off their own lovely complexion to ease the pain because they are unable to see past the hostility and contempt that their government and peers have shown them?
A transgender friend of mine recently told me about a 12-year-old woman in Mississippi. Because of how cruel her family and peers treated her for being transgender, she had committed murder. She was unable to imagine issues improving. twelve years old I told this friend,” I could n’t have imagined at the age of 12 how to even consider killing myself, much less being so hopeless that it was my only choice.”
My second effort was at nine,” he said softly.
Costs like HB 68 are the cause of this. Michael Knowles stated at CPAC in March that” transsexuals may be completely eradicated from common living.” Rep. Gary Click and so many others want this to be their potential. However, this is not the prospect that God envisions. The God of the Bible had send prophets to discuss this bill. Perhaps he has, too. The God of the Bible that so many of us revere is a liberating, marginalized, rather than effective, God.
Our trans children should be praised for their marvels rather than threats. HB 68 is not of God, does not represent the entirety of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and will not take action to defend people. Do not send it out of commission, kindly.
. The Rev. In Anderson Township, St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church employs Alice Connor as secretary pastor.
