LINK Catholic Bishop Issues Trans Pastoral Guide That’s As Awful As You’d Expect | Val Wilde | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
The Diocese of Springfield (Illinois) has released a new pastoral guide instructing its clergy (and, by extension, laypeople) how to respond to the possible appearance of transgender people in their schools, churches, and families.
In case you’re wondering how likely they are to have achieved the desired level of “compassion and sensitivity”, the man who wrote it — Bishop Thomas Paprocki — is the same man who, in 2013, performed an exorcism on the entire state of Illinois as a response to the decision to legalize gay marriage.
He claimed that it was an appropriate response to the news because gay marriage is a lie from the devil.
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The idea of treating trans people just like the ordinary people that they are seems to be beyond that knucklehead.
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I foresee the American catholic church breaking away from the Poop in Rome as they turn more evangelical assholed. Not that any catholic church is worthwhile.
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