Article: Episcopalian Deacon Tells Her Story

[Carolyn Marie]

This is a very nice story about someone's self discovery. I could have put it in the Religion Forum, but it fits here just as well.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/04/06/transgender-deacon-shares-life-changing-story/

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something strangely familiar about those names.

Carolyn Marie

[JenniferB]

That is a wonderful story Carolyn. But I've got to stop reading the comments. Many who disagree don't just disagree, they attack. And it makes me wonder if there will ever be a day when transgender people will become accepted in society.

Jenny

[Guest Amber90]

Thanks for sharing this article Carolyn,

This really is a very inspirational story indeed. It’s always lovely to hear about people who choose happiness over misery. But as Jenny said, some of the comments beneath the article are pretty rude and inconsiderate.

However, I do think that society will learn to accept transgender people in the near future. I like to compare society to an adolescence child who's learning from their errors and knowledge gaps. Society will blunder along, arrogantly believing that it knows all the answers to the world, only to ultimately discover that they’ve gotten a lot of things horrendously wrong.

In the past, society thought that slavery was acceptable, that women were inferior, and that homosexuality was evil. However, today, a large majority people know that such opinions are thoughts that only a foolish bigot would possess. One day, I'm sure that mainstream society will look at transphobic remarks - much like the ones stated in the comments of this article - as nothing more than the beliefs of paranoid and uneducated fools.

Amber

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[Guest rikkicd64]

I have to agree with you Jenny, while most of my experiences have been positive, a couple have been filled with hatred and ridicule.

Rikki..

[Guest Edu]

Great story, but those bigots on the comments section... I couldn't resist, the trolling has begun!

[VickySGV]

I am overjoyed to read some of the nastier remarks about her, because all of them point to her "church should reconsider" the ordination. It shows they are not themselves Episcopalians.

I am a member of her denomination, and YES it carefully considers all of its candidates for holy orders such as she recently had bestowed on her. Her trans element was found as worthy of blessing for service in the church as any other part of her spirit and human ability to serve. The bishop who ordained her is a man I know personally, and with that knowledge is my certainty that she is fully worthy of her order. This July, the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States Of America will be voting on a number of items to affirm the place of Transgendered people in all levels of the Church, and all look extremely hopeful of passing. .