Mainline Christian church installs first openly trans bishop

A California church installed the first openly transgender bishop of a mainline Christian denomination in San Francisco.

The Rev. Megan Rohrer was named bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Saturday, saying the recognition is humbling.

"It's fancy new embroidery but still first part of doing a new job, you want to do well since so many people around the world are paying attention," Rohrer told Fox2 in the Bay Area. "Becoming a bishop is one more field that trans people can be fully equal."

Rohrer is set to serve a six-year term and preside over the Sierra Pacific Synod, which consists of roughly 200 Lutheran congregations.

The road to becoming bishop has not been smooth, according to Rohrer, who was the first transgender chaplain of the San Francisco Police Department.

Rohrer had reportedly been excluded from the church for its regulations against those in the gay and transgender community.

Rohrer was seen as a member of the clergy in 2010 and has led services as the pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood.

"As I'm thinking about other people who are going to be future pastors, I'm going to do the best I can to remove the hurdles in front of them, just like hundreds of thousands of peoples moved hurdles out of my way," Rohrer said.

Rohrer, who is married and a parent to two children, hopes serving as bishop will help foster egalitarianism, the reverend told the Washington Examiner.

Photo by Gooch. Gareth Gooch

"Like many other trailblazing trans people who gain entrance to work sacred and secular jobs, I hope my service as bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will lead to greater equality for all who seek to care for their neighbors," Rohrer said.

Rohrer hopes that being bishop will elucidate the dedication that gay and transgender members have toward faith.

"I hope the news of my installation will reach all the places where trans people need a reminder that God is with them and rooting for them," Rohrer said. "I pray my story will help those who are conflicted to begin imagining the faithfulness of trans."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mainline-christian-church-installs-first-170800018.html

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>>14578251

>Q in the corner

"No one puts Q in the corner…"

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>>14578388

KEK

I was just digging on when Obama kept using the term "Human Experiment."

Came across this video.

Interesting links at CO.

https://braininitiative.nih.gov/

MTA Will Withhold Death Benefits From Unvaccinated Workers

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to extend a $500,000 death benefit to its employees who die of COVID-related causes through the end of 2021, a senior authority official said Monday. But the benefit will remain unavailable to those who decline to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The authority, which runs New York City’s subways, buses and commuter trains, has provided the $500,000 benefit to all of its 68,000 employees since last year. But in April, as vaccines became widely available, the authority decided that, starting in June, the benefit would be available only to the families of employees who had been vaccinated.

That requirement was one of several ways the authority used to urge its workers to get vaccinated. The authority was hit hard by the virus last year, with 171 employees dying of COVID-related causes since the pandemic started.

Only three of those deaths have occurred since June, said Tim Minton, a spokesman for the authority. Minton said the authority had no indication that any of the three had been vaccinated. He said none of their families had tried to claim the death benefit and so far no family had been denied the benefit.

“We want each of our employees to get every single benefit that they are entitled to,” Minton said.

He added that the authority and its officials had taken every step they could think of to encourage employees to get the vaccine, including allowing paid time off for each dose.

Tony Utano, president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, said his members had been notified in April, when the COVID death benefit was extended, that “vaccinations would be required to access the benefit as of June.”

The benefit is equal to the benefit for deaths in the line of duty under the union’s contract. Utano expressed pride in the union’s efforts to persuade the authority to provide the benefit because transit workers had to keep working through the early months of the pandemic.

The extended benefit was scheduled to expire Aug. 31. But the authority’s board is expected to move this week to extend it again, to Dec. 31.

Minton said more than 70% of the authority’s employees have gotten at least one does of the vaccine, mostly through programs run by the state. But the rates are lower for employees of some of the transit divisions, including subways and buses.

The authority has not made vaccines mandatory for its workers. But on Oct. 12, it plans to start requiring weekly testing of workers who cannot provide proof that they have been vaccinated.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mta-withhold-death-benefits-unvaccinated-122930845.html

>>14578535

Just in time for their Newsom fraud