GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

I light of recent development within my church, I have thought about opening a dialogue with our pastor about transsexuality and homosexuality. Any suggestion about how to broach the subject in written form?

If you believe in God, you don't need a church.

Maybe I don't need them, maybe they need me.

That is a really good observation. People, who are too much into dogmatic thinking, need something to 'rattle their cages', so they have a chance to start 'thinking out side of the box', and grow as people.

Actually I own some Pfizer Pharmaceuticals stock and I love watching people reach for the Rolaids.

Why? Pfizer sold their consumer products division, which included Rolaids, to Johnson & Johnson in 2006.

I got fed up with churches before I went into transition. It was due to some of the rudeness that I experienced when I was going to college. At the church youth group meetings:

1. I was ignored, when it came to forming discussion groups.

2. If I was talking to someone, one of the busy bodies would come over and try to break up the discussion.

3. I was exposed to this, 'our church is the only way to gain salvation' propaganda. This was in contradiction to my feelings that the important thing was being a good person.

4. I had exposure to the 'Hellfire and Brimstone' preaching at one church. This is also the sort of thing to which I object.

5 I had a run-in with a Navy chaplain, that was destructive. He did a really good job of destroying any possibility of trust. I was asexual. It did seem that he was pressuring me to engage in activity that might be classified as sexual harassment or even assault.