New C of E guidance on gender transition services follows “devastating trajectory”

Dec 11, 2018 by

from Christian Concern:

Christian Concern’s chief executive Andrea Minichiello Williams, who is a lay member of the Church of England’s General Synod, has responded to new Church of England guidance on how to formally recognise and ‘celebrate’ a person’s gender transition.

She says that the Church of England is continuing its “devastating trajectory towards an outright denial of God and his word” by turning its back on what God has said in the Bible. She continued: “There is no need for Christians to sacrifice truth in a misguided attempt to be loving. It is not loving to mislead people – and wider society – into the falsehoods and myths of transgender ideology.”

This morning, the Church of England published new guidance from the House of Bishops calling for ministers to celebrate a person’s gender transition using an Affirmation of Baptismal Faith service.

The full statement from Andrea Minichiello Williams, Church of England General Synod member 286, follows:

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