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\u201cEnsuring a safe space for all\u201d trumpets the headline in the Diocese of Toronto\u2019s newspaper. \u201cAll\u201d in this case are people who are lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, two spirited, and yet to be identified and, we must presume, more murky areas of our contemporary sexual wilderness.<\/p>\n
The main concern of a recent meeting between Bishop Kevin Robinson and \u201c150 other religious leaders, academics and lay leaders from 30 countries and a wide range of faith backgrounds\u201d<\/em> was the banning of conversion therapy. Other than for transgender individuals for whom conversion therapy and bodily mutilation is encouraged; this brand of conversion therapy has even acquired its own liturgy. Such is the nature of ecclesiastical consistency.<\/p>\n Read all about it here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Empowerment: A key concern of our gathering was the harm done through the practice of conversion therapy. Conversion therapy consists of \u201cany practice or sustained effort that has the effect of denying, repressing, discouraging or changing a person\u2019s non-heterosexual sexual orientation, non-cisgender gender identity or gender expression.\u201d<\/p>\n [\u2026.]<\/p>\n We believe all individuals are made in the image of God, whom many call Divine, and should be free to live a life of dignity, consistent with their sexuality and gender identity, within their faith communities without fear or judgement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Except for empowering those who freely choose to try to resist or change same-sex attractions and who would like prayer, counselling, or non-coercive therapy to help them. No one in that category is afforded any dignity whatsoever; in order to be a certified Anglican, such a person must repress and discourage his wariness of such urges, submit to them even if he would prefer not to and wave a rainbow flag to signify his acquiescence to Anglican doublethink. All because God has made him this way, even the temptations he would rather do without.<\/p>\n I can’t help wondering whether Bishop Kevin Robinson, who is a homosexual married to another man, is more interested in confirming the rightness of his own actions by compelling others to do likewise than in \u201cEnsuring a safe space for all\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cEnsuring a safe space for all\u201d trumpets the headline in the Diocese of Toronto\u2019s newspaper. \u201cAll\u201d in this case are people who are lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, two spirited, and yet to be identified and, we must presume, more … Continue reading