Posted: 06/13/2014 4:30 pm EDT, Adam Ackley, Ph.D.
Denny Burk, who authored the anti-transgender resolution for the 2014 Southern Baptist Convention, has just posted his ten points to help Christians show their love for transpeople, "10 ways to love your transgender neighbor" (6/12/2014). "He is on his way to becoming the #1 anti-trans Christian voice. In Jesus name, of course," responds progressive evangelical Christian writer Kathy V. Baldock, author of Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach between the Conservative Church and the LGBT Christian Community.
Many of Burk's suggestions are common sense approaches to loving anyone with whom a Christian doesn't agree entirely (as Jesus taught us to love our enemies in Matthew 5:44). However, in light of Burk's overall message that transgender identity should never be recognized by Christians (in spite of the medical existence of intersex conditions, for example, that cause gender to be misidentified for some of us at birth), I suggest the following alternate or supplemental list of ten ways Christians can express love to our transgender neighbors:
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-adam-ackley-phd/let-my-people-go-10-simpl_b_5489830.html
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