Will any CofE bishops speak out against Jayne Ozanne’s attack on parents?
by Julian Mann, Christian Today:
The attack by gay Anglican activist Jayne Ozanne on parental rights in her campaign to ban conversion therapy should be a wake-up call to Christians who may be apathetic about the debate.
Ms Ozanne, a member of the Church of England’s General Synod, made her comment about parents being “the problem, not the solution” in counselling gender-confused children on The Gathering Podcast, hosted by an LGBTQ+ church in Cardiff city centre.
She attacked government ministers for expressing caution about including such children in a ban on conversion therapy.
She said ministers “have committed to ensuring that the ban will include, we’ve been told, transgender people who are twice as likely to be offered (conversion therapy) or to go through with the most horrific forms of abuse”. But she said the government has been telling campaigners that the legislation needs to be “very careful” in relation to trans children.
She complained that the government apparently wants to ensure that “parents have the upper hand here”. Arguing that parents’ rights should not trump trans children’s rights, she declared: “Parents, frankly, most of the time are the problem, not the solution.”
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