The Church of Ireland needs to wake up and realise that the issue of human sexuality challenges Judeo-Christian basis of western world

In the very first book of the Bible Gold told us that he made us ‘male and female’In the very first book of the Bible Gold told us that he made us ‘male and female’
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The day that the Church of Ireland affirms more than two genders is the day that I shall leave it.

The day that the Church of Ireland affirms more than two genders is the day that I shall leave it.

I fear that God will leave it too.

In the very first book of the Bible he told us that he made us ‘male and female’. Jesus even quoted this verse when debating marriage.

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Peter Tatchell describes the 1971 Gay Liberation Front Manifesto as promoting ‘living communally, gender subversive radical drag and non-possessive multi-partner open relationships.’

Naïve church committees don’t realise the consequences of adopting this gender subversion (see article below, June 1).

Douglas Murray, in his book The Madness of Crowds, gives an anecdote of a woman student at Hillary Clinton’s alma mater, who decided to identify as a ‘masculine of centre gender queer person’, which led to absurd consequences documented by Murray.

Then in 2016 Jamie Shupe persuaded an Oregon judge to declare him America’s first non-binary person — neither male nor female (and conveniently to cancel his debts because he was now a new person).

And what about fluidity?

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In 2017 London Met Police issued two warrant cards to one of its officers. On some days Callum is a man; on others Abi is a woman.

When will the Church waken from its slumber and realise that the issue of human sexuality is nothing less than a challenge to the Judeo-Christian worldview on which our western society is built?

Dermot O’Callaghan, Hillsborough, Church of Ireland lay reader

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