Episcopal Church Panel OK's Transgender Clergy
By Gretchen_J on Religion from ontopmag.com
And here's to you, Bishop Robinson: In a General Convention in Indianapolis this week, the Episcopal Church moved forward on a measure that would allow transgender men and women to become ordained clergy. The move comes nine years after the church's first openly-gay bishop, Gene Robinson, was ordained. Also on the docket (but not yet decided): whether the church will bless gay marriages.


