SONORA, CA: Transgendered Public Defender Woodall ordained as Episcopal deacon
SONORA, CA: Transgendered Public Defender Woodall ordained as Episcopal deacon
A Tuolumne County woman was ordained as an Episcopalian deacon at a Saturday ceremony in Stockton, joining a small but growing group of transgender clergy members
by Lenore Rutherford,
The Union Democrat
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/
March 12, 2012
Carolyn Woodall, an attorney with the Tuolumne County Public Defender's Office, was conferred the title in a ceremony at the Episcopal Church of St. Anne in Stockton, joined by dozens of church leaders, family members and friends.
She will serve at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Jamestown, comprised mainly of local Episcopalians who stayed with the faith following a 2007 rift in the San Joaquin Diocese, which saw more-conservative members leave and join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. Woodall called the ceremony "wonderful" and said she was "very relieved."
"I've finally gotten past it," she said. The Rev. George Cano of St. Anne's, who led Saturday's sermon, said, "We know what it is being Christians in a prejudiced world," adding that it took the division of the church to make the Episcopalian faith "truly inclusive." A long applause followed Saturday's ceremony, and those in attendance rushed to hug and congratulate her and another newly ordained deacon, Eldon Wayne Anderson.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
A Tuolumne County woman was ordained as an Episcopalian deacon at a Saturday ceremony in Stockton, joining a small but growing group of transgender clergy members
by Lenore Rutherford,
The Union Democrat
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/
March 12, 2012
Carolyn Woodall, an attorney with the Tuolumne County Public Defender's Office, was conferred the title in a ceremony at the Episcopal Church of St. Anne in Stockton, joined by dozens of church leaders, family members and friends.She will serve at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Jamestown, comprised mainly of local Episcopalians who stayed with the faith following a 2007 rift in the San Joaquin Diocese, which saw more-conservative members leave and join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. Woodall called the ceremony "wonderful" and said she was "very relieved."
"I've finally gotten past it," she said. The Rev. George Cano of St. Anne's, who led Saturday's sermon, said, "We know what it is being Christians in a prejudiced world," adding that it took the division of the church to make the Episcopalian faith "truly inclusive." A long applause followed Saturday's ceremony, and those in attendance rushed to hug and congratulate her and another newly ordained deacon, Eldon Wayne Anderson.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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