A regional body of the United Methodist Church has ordained a transgender individual who doesn’t identify as male or female to the position of provisional deacon. The Northern Illinois Conference commissioned M Barclay, who serves as director of communications for the pro-LGBT advocacy group Reconciling Ministries Network, as a provisional deacon on Sunday.
“For so long, I’ve longed to be a pastoral presence in the world — and certainly you can do that without a collar — but we have ordination for a reason, and part of that is that I can publicly identify as a pastor now,” stated Barclay, as reported by United Methodist News Service. “I know it’s not particularly common in The United Methodist Church, but I intend to wear a collar every single day because for a person like me to navigate society in a collar provides some profound and urgently needed pastoral opportunities, particularly for queer and trans people.” READ MORE
What is this Kingdom of God coming to when the word of God is so profoundly twisted just to satisfy one persons flesh? If this person wanted to be a “pastoral presence” then that person should have got their life right with the Lord! Shame on the people who allowed this travesty to happen! On judgement day their will be alot of explaining to do!