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Title: Local: Rev. Erin Swenson
Post by: Natasha on October 05, 2008, 12:20:03 AM
Local: Rev. Erin Swenson

http://www.southernvoice.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=21421 (http://www.southernvoice.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=21421)
10/4/2008

Rev. Swenson was ordained in 1973 by the Presbytery of Atlanta, but
not as Erin. She transitioned to female in 1995, and after much
debate, the presbytery upheld her ordination a year later — the first
known time a Protestant minister had remained ordained following
gender transition.