{"id":26544,"date":"2018-11-23T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26544"},"modified":"2018-11-23T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:58:03","slug":"toronto-bishops-acknowledge-trans-day-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-bishops-acknowledge-trans-day-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Bishops acknowledge Trans Day of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.anglican.ca\/2018\/11\/21\/bishops-issue-statement-on-trans-day-of-remembrance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26546\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/proxy.duckduckgo.com_-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/proxy.duckduckgo.com_-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/proxy.duckduckgo.com_.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/>On this Trans Day of Remembrance, as Bishops of the Diocese of Toronto, we wish to acknowledge the dignity and inherent worth of all people, including every transgender person, and our opposition to all prejudice, discrimination, or actions that deny the full personhood of any individual based on their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Trans people are valued and beloved members of our Church, as clergy and lay leaders, as members of our congregations, as people we serve and by whom we are served.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if the bishops would only acknowledge \u201cthe dignity and inherent worth of all people\u201d including those still in the womb, their statement might be worth something. As it is, all the bishops are doing is sailing effortlessly along on the tide of our cultural foibles and expecting to be congratulated for it.<\/p>\n<p>Looking on the bright side, since God is <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/god-is-the-only-person-not-allowed-to-choose-his-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer Father<\/a> and, hence, must be transgender, fae must finally feel at home as a \u201cvalued and beloved member[s] of our Church.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: On this Trans Day of Remembrance, as Bishops of the Diocese of Toronto, we wish to acknowledge the dignity and inherent worth of all people, including every transgender person, and our opposition to all prejudice, discrimination, or actions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-bishops-acknowledge-trans-day-of-remembrance\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[2508,2555],"class_list":["post-26544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-toronto","tag-andrew-asbil","tag-colin-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544","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=26544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}