Friday, September 3, 2010
Life and death of Mike/Christine
Posted by Bobby
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=42378LA Weekly recently published what is, in many ways, a stunning account of the life and death of Mike Penner/Christine Daniels. It's an extraordinary, heartbreaking story of the Los Angeles Times sportswriter who killed himself in 2009 after a highly public transition from Mike to Christine and, finally, back to Mike.
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There you have it: His Catholic soul. The first hint at a religion angle in this sad tale. Unfortunately, it's a religion ghost left unexplored.
Keep reading. As Mike becomes Christine, two transgendered friends take her to Metropolitan Community Church, which, readers are told, "became Daniels' spiritual home." The story makes several more vague references to the Los Angeles church, whose website describes it as a place where gay and straight Christians worship together:
