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Vicar Faces Official Rebuke From Church of England For Saying Trans Archdeacon is “Biologically a Bloke”

by Will Jones
17 December 2023 9:00 AM

A vicar faces an official rebuke from the Church of England (CofE) for saying the institution’s first transgender archdeacon is “biologically a bloke”. The Telegraph has the story.

The Revd Brett Murphy faces an official rebuke from the CofE over “intentionally derogatory and disrespectful” remarks he made about the Revd Canon Dr. Rachel Mann shortly after his appointment in June.

LGBT+ campaigners had hailed his appointment as a “beacon of light and hope”.

The Revd Murphy, in a 32-minute-long YouTube video, criticised the CofE for putting “a radical rainbow activist” in a “position of high authority in a diocese”.

The Revd Murphy, who quit the CofE a month after the broadcast, had said in reaction to the appointment: “Now you may wonder ‘is that really newsworthy, Brett?’

“You may roll your eyes, if you are a complementarian, that another feminist is getting a prominent high-ranking position in the CofE, but this is worse than that.

“The Revd Rachel Mann is in fact, biologically, a bloke, who identifies and lives as a woman.”

He goes on to question whether the appointment is “positioning” the Revd Mann to become the CofE’s first transsexual bishop and questions how she would deal with a member of her congregation who sees her lifestyle as in “complete rebellion against God’s word”.

“So what you are seeing here is someone who is a radical rainbow activist being put in a position of high authority in a diocese.”

The Revd Mann declined to comment.

He previously told the Telegraph: “I’m self-evidently a woman, but I’m glad I was once a man.”

The Revd Murphy, now a member of the Free Church of England, faces being formally disciplined by the CofE over his comments.

An earlier complaint about his comments was dismissed by the Bishop of Loughborough, the Rt Revd Saju Muthalaly, who said no further disciplinary action needed to be taken.

However, following a review of the complaint by the tribunal arm of the CofE, the investigation has been reopened.

The Revd Murphy said he risks being barred from any future employment in the CofE and of having a permanent mark on his ‘blue file’, a clergy member’s personal record.

Bishop Muthalaly, in a strongly worded letter to the Revd Murphy, called his language “intentionally derogatory and disrespectful” and “not appropriate as a Clerk in Holy Orders, irrespective of the right you have to hold and express views”.

He added: “You clearly recorded your vlog wearing clerical attire aware that this would give you both status and make it clear you were a Church of England priest (further reinforced at the time by your description of yourself on your YouTube page).”

He accused the vicar of trying to spread his views to “as wide an audience as possible”.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Louise Perry in the Telegraph warns that “woke Christianity will kill the Church of England stone dead” and “the churches still thriving are those that refuse to pander to the Left”.

Tags: ChristianityChurch of EnglandTransgenderismWoke Gobbledegook

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Well yes but isn’t “bloke” a purely biological term? How can you be biologically a bloke and not a bloke in other ways?

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
1 year ago

“Called his language “intentionally derogatory and disrespectful” and “not appropriate as a Clerk in Holy Orders”.
Maker’s Handbook, page 1, Genesis 1.27 ‘So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.’.
These words repeated by Jesus too.
The bishop is on dodgy ground. Roll on the Judgment.

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Arum
Arum
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

To play devil’s advocate, no-one (in the Church of England at least) believes that bit any more though, do they?

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

““I’m self-evidently a woman, but I’m glad I was once a man.”
——–

No, you’re self-evidently a man who has no understanding of basic biological facts.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

I went to the psychiatrist and said “I identify as a dog. I bark and wag my tail” —–He replied “Lay on the couch for me”——–I said “Oh I am not allowed on the couch”

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

It’s the way you tell ’em.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Please do not mis-species me. ——–ruff ruff ruff

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Hoppy Uniatz
Hoppy Uniatz
1 year ago

Honestly, the fact this fellow has made the news shows us all in a poor light. A couple of hundred years ago, one can imagine there might have been some eccentric parson in a remote area, Devon perhaps, who sometimes styled himself “Lady Amelia” and rode side-saddle to hounds, and you can imagine he might have found his way into a small locally printed pamphlet on “Curious Devon Characters”.

But he wouldn’t even have made the local press. That would have been full of important news, like stock prices at auction.

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Arum
Arum
1 year ago

The main reason I left the C of E (many years ago) was that it seemed to behave like a big corporation (and one that had lost touch of its core ‘mission’). This is just more of the same. If Murphy worked for (say) BP and made the vlog in some way that clearly identified him as a BP employee, I’m sure the outcome would be the same. It’s just another UK institution that has failed, but it’s been failing for 30 years or more.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Arum

There are many ways of pursuing a fulfilling spiritual life.

I don’t think the C of E is much help with that these days.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

“There are many ways of pursuing a fulfilling spiritual life”

Hear, hear!

Taking a long, hard look in the mirror is the best place to start. I haven’t yet progressed past that stage 🤣

The light comes from self-awareness and humility.

But we are still right and they’re all still wrong about ThePandemic™, though!

Last edited 1 year ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

A person identifying themselves in some way or other these days trumps how other people may identify them. But ofcourse is that such a big surprise in wokeworld when ideology trumps common sense on just about everything? ——-You cannot say who stole your mobile phone. It looked like a woman but who can tell these days, when women may have a 6 o’clock shadow.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

We’re building a society around the promotion of the destruction of the traditional family unit. It started with feminism and it ends with the acceptance of mental illness, which is what transgenderism is, as normal. Pit women against men, pit men and women against their own biology, pit children against their parents; destroy, destroy, destroy. What we are left with is no sense of belonging. No sense of belonging to any group other that the state. Rehashed communism has been on its way for a long time. It always hid as a bloke in a dress.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Boom

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Yes, if I remember correctly Jesus said something about the importance of having an impeccable “blue file” to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I think it was in the gospel according to Matthew. Or maybe it was Luke.

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Rowland P
Rowland P
1 year ago

Help and support the Heritage Party which champions traditional values. And because of this it is targeted by Antifa which puts them in a good light doesn’t it?

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Geoff Cox
Geoff Cox
1 year ago

According to the linked Telegraph article, he calls himself a woman and a lesbian. So he still fancies women and also wants to dress like one. Isn’t that a transvestite? Confused – we are supposed to be.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
1 year ago

‘He added: “You clearly recorded your vlog wearing clerical attire aware that this would give you both status and make it clear you were a Church of England priest”’

So he’s being accused of honesty.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

I’m unclear which particular Canon Law can be used against a clergyman who’s already left the CofE and calls out a transgender lesbian serving as an archdeacon. But then I’m a Baptist now.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Transgender lesbian is a nonsense term. That’s bloke who – for some reason only known to him – tries to appear like a woman in public but doesn’t want to extend to his private life, where he prefers to remain a bloke, ie, someone with a habit of putting his penis into real women. That’s self-evidently his own business. But he has no right to try to force others to partake in his cosplaying show.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
1 year ago

This is my archdeaconry. I declined to go to the visitation for church wardens and lay sidespersons for the same reason – i’m not engaging with clown world.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

I’d say, with all due respect, learn to juggle, or leave!

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

Welby is clearly Satan’s acolyte. I attend church every week. The Church of England will undoubtedly die but Christianity will NEVER die.

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago

Jesus said “I tell you the truth”. Rev Murphy was telling the truth.

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sarah
sarah
1 year ago

Revd Mann’s a man, he probably should have changed his name as well as his pronouns!!

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