Culture Watch
A reader sent me a like the the following story
The Rev. Malcolm Himschoot may be the closest thing to a rock star in the world of Protestant ministry: young, brainy, charming, subject of a new documentary, recently married -- and transgendered.
Now Himschoot, 27, is coming this summer not only to a theater near you, but also to a congregation: Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, where in August he begins a two-year appointment as outreach minister.
He's one of only a few openly transgendered clergy members in the United States and may be the first to serve in the Twin Cities. The United Church of Christ (UCC), which ordained Himschoot, says it became the first mainline Christian denomination to ordain an openly transgendered minister a few years ago.
But that's not why Plymouth leaders chose Himschoot over other highly qualified candidates, said the Rev. James Gertmenian, Plymouth's senior minister.
Rev. Malcolm Himschoot and his wife
"It speaks to us of the self-insight and courage that he has, but it was not the driver in our decision," Gertmenian said. "He's got exceptional academic credentials. ... We were impressed he spent a year doing urban ministry in Denver, and he impressed us with the depth of his own spiritual vision."
Plymouth, an independent Congregational church, is a liberal congregation with 1,800 members that is known for its robust ministries in social justice and the arts. It's the home of VocalEssence, the award-winning choral group founded and directed by Plymouth organist and choirmaster Philip Brunelle.
Really? A liberal congregation - I would never have guessed that.
Himschoot, a Colorado native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., and was student of the year at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. For the past year he has been associate pastor at Denver Inner City Parish, where he worked with students, seniors and ex-prisoners.
But he has drawn the most attention for "Call Me Malcolm," a documentary about his bodily change from a woman to a man and the cross-country trip he took to find support and acceptance. The film, produced by the UCC and directed by Joseph Parlagreco, won raves at recent film festivals in Los Angeles and Cleveland.
This is funny and sad at the same time. That psychiatric disorders are now accepted, that a deeply confused person is not told that they are confused, but affirmed in their disorder.
"If we didn't have the courage to hire this young man, what did that say?"
An aspect of courage is telling the truth even when it will deeply hurt someone. This must be done with charity, but not doing it is a sin against charity. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them, of course sometimes a gender mulligan can be called. I wonder if this will be the next tactic of the women's ordination movement kind of like Richard Raskind who became tennis star Dr. Renee Richards - except in the opposite direction.
Via Just One Minute comes the lie of the week.
WOODRUFF: Similarly, on the question of gay rights, aren't Democrats always going to be on the defensive? You now have 11 states that ban gay marriage. Should Democrats think about changing their position?
CLINTON: Well, I don't know many Democrats who support gay marriage. In fact, I don't and haven't for, you know, years before I became a senator. But I support giving people the right to enter into recognized relationships, that whether you call him civil unions or domestic partnerships, enable them to own property, to have hospital visitation. To me, that's a human rights issue.
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That last comment by Clinton was simply a stupid dog trick. Someone said, "Here boy, bend over and speak".
Welcome to the Asylum! I mean liberal society where the bizarrely possible becomes really probable; and consensus is reached among the diverse and multi-cultural inmates through dialogue and the quest for clarification. Lest one think that the apogee of lunacy has been reached through the eternally correct gender quest, may I remind you, dear ones, that out there in a laboratory somewhere, supported most likely with your tax dollars, are the first efforts at cross-specieism.
Far fetched? Here's the 2015 south forty tomato crop on it.
Somehow that makes me think of this: http://www.expagan.info/blog/?p=123
Jeff writes:
I wonder if this will be the next tactic of the women's ordination movement kind of like Richard Raskind who became tennis star Dr. Renee Richards - except in the opposite direction.
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This is disturbing. I know that for the purposes of ordination, the church would HAVE to consider the gender you were born.
But how about this one... A man transgendered to a woman gets ordained... (Sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn't it). :P
I think your comment on accepting the disorder is most appropriate. People with gender identity disorder, for whatever reasons (very often including sexual abuse) cannot identify with their sex. (People with actual genetic or hormonal disorders that cause confusion in identifying their sex are not considered to have gender identity disorder).
The point is, when trauma and other factors make it difficult for someone to reconcile their identity with their physical/hormonal sex, why do we encourage butchering and modifying the physical/hormonal sex?
Shouldn't we help them with their identity problems? Sheesh.
If disorders like gender-confusion aren't recognized as mental illnesses or worthy of treatment, pediphilia and bestiality are edging closer to acceptable life choices.
Here we go again. Christ came to preach a Gospel of leftist poltiics which find their origins in 19th century materialist philosophy. Yeah. That makes sense.
Our priest had question and answer sessions for lent, and I thought it would be funny to put the following in the box:
If you are born a woman and have a sex-change to become a man, can you be a priest?
Not so funny now.
If Clinton is elected president, then our Christian nation will find that Christ is not in the executive branch of the government. I loathe the possibility of having such a weasly person again there (her husband was the first). Because of her views, if she is elected president, do we call Slick Willy the "First Lady" and go with tradition?
Here's what I'm wondering: Why do the the Rev. Malcolm Himschoots and other transgendered/reconfigured folk tell everyone they used be a (fill in the blank) but now they're a (fill in the blank)? We're supposed to take them seriously that they were born the wrong sex, but now, through the miracle of surgery and heavy dosages of hormones, they've now been put right. According to them. So why do they run around telling all of us what they used to be all the time? Wouldn't that sort of defeat their whole purpose?
Also, I saw a show on a guy who thinks he's a cat. He's had several tattoos in cat patterns, implanted whisers, reshaped his teeth to fangs, etc. This was disturbing enough, but what was even more incredulous were the commenting doctors who affirmed that it would be wrong to catagorize him as disturbed. By the end of the episode, he was looking for someone to surgically implant a tail!
Oye Vegas!!
...and why ever did she take the name MALCOM for crying out loud? That doesn't even go with Himschoots. She should have gone for HERman Himschoots...
Hmmm, Troll raises an interesting question regarding orders. As far as I know (admittedly little) the Church not only looks at the sex of the individual but their state of mind. So a man-to-woman seeking ordination would be denied because they are mentally disturbed in the first place, much like a candidate who claimed they were Napoleon. The only wrinkle I could see would be if a man had a sex change to a woman, realized their illness and were cured, resumed life as a man though surgically altered and then sought ordination. I think that would be allowed.
Yeah, I saw the "cat guy" on TV.
He'd be useful to have at the clown liturgy.
I saw Larry King the other night. A guy has "sexual reassignment surgery" (gotta love that term) but remains married to his wife. Now she's pulled into his madness.
It's all too much really. Cat People, sexual reassignment, and all.
And if you try to help these people you'll be acused of impinging on their freedom. And they'll call you crazy. Or evil.
Yes, Tony, the word reassignment should be reserved for duty, not for absolutes like your gender or species, Lord help us!
I saw a survey for something not long ago (can't remember what), but instead of a check box for male and female, there was a gradient scale with male on the one end and female on the other. One could place a marker in the in between area so as to indicate that you are mostly male-ish or female-ish -- or you could even be 50/50!
I guess for those 50/50 folk it's a real you-know-what having to go to both a gynecological appointment AND prostate screening!
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