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Title: 'A Transgender View' discussed today at Virginia Highland Church
Post by: Butterfly on October 18, 2009, 04:18:40 AM
Post by: Butterfly on October 18, 2009, 04:18:40 AM
'A Transgender View' discussed today at Virginia Highland Church
Southern Voice
By Dyana Bagby
Oct. 18 at 5:00 AM
http://www.sovo.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=27681 (http://www.sovo.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=27681)
She was ordained as Eric Karl Swensen in 1973 by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, then part of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Her ordination was threatened 23 years later when she came out as the first known mainstream Presbyterian minister to transition from male to female. She fought to have her ordination sustained after members of the church called for her ordination to be revoked.
Southern Voice
By Dyana Bagby
Oct. 18 at 5:00 AM
http://www.sovo.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=27681 (http://www.sovo.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=27681)
She was ordained as Eric Karl Swensen in 1973 by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, then part of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Her ordination was threatened 23 years later when she came out as the first known mainstream Presbyterian minister to transition from male to female. She fought to have her ordination sustained after members of the church called for her ordination to be revoked.