{"id":29338,"date":"2021-12-02T22:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29338"},"modified":"2021-12-02T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:15:35","slug":"bishop-anna-greenwood-lee-rejoices-over-conversion-therapy-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-anna-greenwood-lee-rejoices-over-conversion-therapy-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee rejoices over conversion therapy ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the passing of our liberal government\u2019s motion to ban conversion therapy<\/a>, Anna Greenwood-Lee, bishop of the Diocese of B.C. tweeted her approval:<\/p>\n

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I find this very confusing because the Anglican Church of Canada has just published a liturgy to bless \u201cgender transition\u201d, surely the ultimate in conversion therapy.<\/em> Since our clerical tweeter has lent her support<\/a> to November 20th<\/sup>\u2019s Transgender Day of Remembrance, she must approve of this<\/em> conversion therapy.<\/p>\n

The animated GIF says “You’re amazing just the way you are”, an odd statement from a Christian, let alone a bishop since, according to the articles of her own church, “just the way we are” is along the lines of:<\/p>\n

“man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God’s wrath and damnation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps bishops should just stay off twitter. Come to think of it, maybe they should stay away from churches, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the passing of our liberal government\u2019s motion to ban conversion therapy, Anna Greenwood-Lee, bishop of the Diocese of B.C. tweeted her approval: I find this very confusing because the Anglican Church of Canada has just published a liturgy to … Continue reading →<\/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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-29338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anna-greenwood-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29338","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=29338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}