I have no real oppinion. I just was thinking about this one day and wanted to know what other people thought.
2007-10-03 07:49:49 · 12 answers · asked by Angie, Raised by Wolves 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes, why not?
There is no reason why someone who has had a congenital condition corrected should not fell the call of the ministry, and no reason why they should be excluded if they do.
I know of several transsexual women and men who have been ordained (and one who transitioned while already a minister; here http://www.pfc.org.uk/node/732), and at least one transsexual man who has taken holy orders at a monastery.
There are, of course, still some people who are ignorant enough to believe that transsexualism is a 'sin' or a 'perversion' rather than a medical condition outside the control of the person concerned, and this is the reason why most transsexual people are denied this vocation(and no doubt they will give this answer a 'thumbs-down'...).
2007-10-03 08:13:14 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think very many people who have had a sex change want to be members of a clergy. But, if they are qualified does it matter all that much?
It won't happen though, because most churches do not let women in the clergy. If it is someone who had a sex change they either are or were a women.
2007-10-03 14:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by rrrawwwr im a monster 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Josephus
Antiquities of the Jews Book IV
40...do you avoid any conversation with them who have deprived themselves of their manhood, and of that fruit of generation which God has given to men for the increase of their kind: let such be driven away, as if they had killed their children, since they beforehand have lost what should procure them; for evident it is, that while their soul is become effeminate, they have withal transfused that effeminacy to their body also
2007-10-03 16:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why would it be wrong? I don't believe we should prevent people doing good works because of their gender or the alteration thereof.
2007-10-03 14:56:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why wouldn't they want to? Of course it's okay. A transexual can be called to minister to God's people just as well (probably better) than a protestant republican fundamentalist.
2007-10-03 14:53:00 · answer #5 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I see absolutely nothing wrong with it, and I'd imagine that someone, somewhere, is doing exactly that.
2007-10-03 14:53:49 · answer #6 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
People that mutilate themselves or take hormones to change gender are mentally ill and have no business telling other people what's right and wrong.
2007-10-03 14:51:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
Absolutely not!
2007-10-03 14:54:55 · answer #8 · answered by CR 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes. I do. What does gender have to do with preaching?
2007-10-03 14:51:54 · answer #9 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Sure
2007-10-03 14:52:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋