{"id":16336,"date":"2012-04-28T23:15:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16336"},"modified":"2012-04-28T23:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T03:15:39","slug":"the-next-step-for-anglicans-drag-queen-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-next-step-for-anglicans-drag-queen-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"The next step for Anglicans: drag queen blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican Church of Canada archdeacon, the Venerable M. Edward Simonton, has been in India and, in his peripatetic meandering, bumped into a number of transvestites: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29\" target=\"_blank\">Hijra<\/a>, some of whom, in their enthusiasm to embrace their inner woman, have had their penis, testicles and scrotum removed. Coming, as he does, from the Diocese of Montreal, the worthy archdeacon understandably felt quite at home in this milieu.<\/p>\n<p>Would we not have \u201ca different church\u201d if we hired transvestites \u201cto give blessings on a Sunday\u201d he muses? Not <em>that<\/em> much different, surely.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/archideaconalwhitterings.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/breaking-point-or-magic-transvestite.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway, it just goes to show how different the world can be. A transvestite in Western culture would never be treated with religious awe let alone respect. I need not mention the history of persecution by western religions. I will also not get into Jungian concepts of the Sacred Hermaphrodite in pagan and classical religion but simple point out that the concept of a third gender is common to most cultures. Just not ours.<\/p>\n<p>Still wouldn\u2019t it be a different church if instead of persecuting transvestites we hired them to give blessings on a Sunday? And, hey, no jokes about men already dressing up in coloured \u2018dresses\u2019 every week to do just this! I know that transvestites are not the same as drag queens (the later are entertainers) but my mind immediately jumps to finale of <em>Pricilla Queen of the Desert<\/em> (the depictions are of indigenous Australian animals and the Sydney opera house). There are few church services I have been to that could not have benefitted immensely from a drag queen blessing thrown in at some point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican Church of Canada archdeacon, the Venerable M. Edward Simonton, has been in India and, in his peripatetic meandering, bumped into a number of transvestites: Hijra, some of whom, in their enthusiasm to embrace their inner woman, have had their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-next-step-for-anglicans-drag-queen-blessings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1564,1600],"class_list":["post-16336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-transvestites","tag-venerable-m-edward-simonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}