This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A collective of religious organizations has issued a statement declaring transgenderism "holy" and confirming that God makes mistakes, but they are such that man can fix them.
"During a time when our country is placing their lives under increasingly serious threat, there is a disgraceful misconception that all people of faith do not affirm the full spectrum of gender — a great many of us do," said the statement issued over the signatures of officials from the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ (UCC), the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Union for Reform Judaism, an association of Quakers and others.
A report at the Christian Post said the statement declaring transgenderism "holy" was "in direct rebuke of a vote by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to bar transgender procedures in Catholic healthcare facilities."
But the rebuke actually was directed toward God, in support of an ideology that He makes mistakes in the gender assignments of individuals but human physicians can offer corrections for those mistakes.
The pages-long statement was self-described as a "landmark" comment "proclaiming that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are worthy of love, support, and protection."
Signers included Unitarian Universalist Sofía Betancourt; Barry Crossno of the Friends General Conference; Cecilia Eggleston of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches; Yvette A. Flunder of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism; Jihyun Oh of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Teresa Hord Owens of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Karen Georgia Thompson of the United Church of Christ (UCC); Rabbi Deborah Waxman of Reconstructing Judaism; and the Episcopal Church.
The paper asserts, "Let it be known instead that our beloveds are created in the image of God – Holy and whole."
The demands are directed "to the American public, political leaders, and moral teachers."
"As such, we raise our voices in solidarity to unequivocally proclaim the holiness of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, as well as the recognition of the entire spectrum of gender identity and expression," it states.
Further, it describes as important efforts of "religious leaders" to speak out.
"When people of faith and conscience stay silent in the face of oppression, we are all made less whole. When people of faith and conscience speak out against that which violates the sacred in its own name, we have the power to stay the hand of sin. Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people are vulnerable today. Our faiths, our theologies, and our practices of prophetic witness call on us to say with one voice to transgender people among us: 'You are holy. You are sacred. We love you. We support you, and we will protect you.'"
The Christian Post explained the leftist ideologists complained, "Too many entrusted with positions of power are demonizing transgender people, blaming them for acts of violence, and criminalizing their very right to occupy space in our common life. The fear that many transgender children, their families, and their loved ones experience is unacceptable. The drive to limit the ways that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people authentically live their lives – by limiting the medical care they receive, ignoring and sometimes provoking acts of violence against them, preventing them from traveling freely, or keeping them from participating in public activities — is a betrayal of our deeply held values as people of faith."
Few efforts are around today that "limit" the ways people live. However, there are a multitude of efforts to prevent the delivery of various chemicals to children, and the accompanying body-mutilating surgeries the transgender agenda includes.
Further, there are efforts to prevent forcing American taxpayers from funding such extremist agendas.
The statement claimed, "Our scriptures vary, but they share a common conviction. As we make justice our aim we must give voice to those who are silenced. Our shared values, held across many faiths, teach us that we are all children of God and that we must cultivate a discipline of hope, especially in difficult times."
The Christian Post warned, "The statement went on to suggest that opposing transgenderism is sinful, reiterating the belief that transgender, nonbinary and intersex individuals are intrinsically holy, which is the only attribute of God magnified to the third degree of repetition in the Bible."
Betancourt's biography boasts that she teaches "womanism and Earth justice," and follows a statement from U.S. Catholic bishops that Catholic hospitals won't participate in transgender activism, based on years of deliberation, Vatican guidance, and a 2023 doctrinal note, "Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body."
"Catholic health care services must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex, or take part in the development of such procedures," the bishops said in the 2023 doctrinal note.
Of course, being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and cannot be changed.
