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Church Tribunal Clears Clergyman Who Called Trans Archdeacon “a Bloke”

by Will Jones
29 March 2024 3:00 PM

A clergyman who called the Church of England’s first trans woman archdeacon a “bloke” should not be punished, a disciplinary tribunal has ruled. The Times has the story.

Brett Murphy was an Anglican priest when he posted comments to his 14,000 YouTube subscribers in which he commented on the appointment of Rachel Mann as the Archdeacon of Bolton and Salford [a diocesan position akin to a regional manager] last year.

Murphy said that Mann was “in fact, biologically, a bloke, who identifies and lives as a woman”. He also described Mann as a “fella”.

He went on to speculate whether the appointment indicated that the Anglican hierarchy was “positioning” Mann to become the Church of England’s first transsexual bishop. “What you are seeing here is someone who is a radical rainbow activist being put in a position of high authority in a diocese,” Murphy said in his video.

Despite Murphy subsequently leaving the church over objections to its plans to introduce same-sex blessings to places of worship, a complaint was made against him under official clergy discipline measures.

At a first hearing last year, the Bishop of Loughborough, the Right Rev Saju Muthulay, rejected the complaint, but the issue was reopened after the original complainant requested a review.

But this week David Turner KC, Deputy President of the church’s disciplinary tribunal, ruled that Murphy had no case to answer.

Recommending to Muthulay that the complaint should be dismissed, Turner said that while use of the terms bloke and fella to refer to Mann were “arguably highly insensitive”, they were “not in themselves offensive words”.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Cancel CultureCensorshipChurch of EnglandTrans ActivismTransgenderismWoke Gobbledegook

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

Ah, a rare moment of sanity!

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kev
kev
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

There’s even a clue in the fella’s surname – Mann.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

In 1948, George Mann playing cricket for England was clean bowled by South African ‘Tufty Mann. Commentator, the peerless John Arlott opined. “What we have here is a clear case of Mann’s inhumanity to Mann.” (Rachel Mann sounds a ‘charmer!’)

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

There is no such thing as a trans woman and “biological” as a modifier to “bloke” is not only redundant but misleading as it implies that somehow you can be not biologically a bloke. Language matters – our enemies use it to confuse.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Agreed.

While we’re at it, I’m not cis-anything and I consider this to be hateful.

It’s just that I’m not the type to try cancelling someone for this. I’ll just call them a tw*t to their face and then move on with my life.

Perhaps I should be more petty and entitled, but it’s simply not in me.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Tactics———-A “lets not draw attention to our own absurdity” moment.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago

I enjoyed this point made by Kathleen Stock over on Unherd.

“It is an irony of the present situation that so many seem to think that biology is socially constructed but that the meaning of hatred is natural and fixed. ”

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