….now we make them Church of England vicars.

It comes to something when I, a normal run of the mill pleb, know much more about the contents of the Bible than a Church of England vicar but this appears to be the case here. This vicar who goes by the name of the Reverend Bingo Alison and who claims to be ‘non binary gender queer’ says that he found inspiration to become a trans lunatic from the Book of Genesis. Now I’m reasonably familiar with this biblical text but I really can’t recall any thing in there about being ‘gender queer’. Of course there is the phrase, in Gen 5:2 which will vary according to the translation which says ‘male and female he made them’ but I’m buggered if I can find any way that Genesis could be reinterpreted to suggest that the Eternal One created the gender lunatics as well.

Bingo, who is pictured above, is a man who decided to take on a new persona, he’s not a woman nor is he some sort of half and half creature, he’s a bloke in a dress. The whole idea of a person being non-binary is to be quite frank utter and complete bullshit. Every single cell of this man’s body is chemically and genetically coded to say ‘male’. I’m afraid that this is more mental illness than any sort of social identity. A century ago he would have been seen as an effeminate gay or bi male and tolerated or scorned depending on the locality or would have been confined to some sort of institution for his and society’s protection.

The people I feel sorry about here are Mr Alison’s family. His wife and young children have had to deal with the great disappointment of having a husband and father who has abandoned his role in the family in order for Mr Alison to publicly express his delusions.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not naive. I’ve known for years that there has been a gay subculture operating in the Church of England which was semi-tolerated by senior clerics to such an extent that a gay East London vicar once told me that some parts of the ‘smells and bells’ High Church Anglo- Catholic Anglican community contained more gays than Soho’s Old Compton Street. However these clerical gays were discreet and often served their parishioners very well and became much loved servants of the Church. What they did not do is parade around in public pushing their sexual preferences and their gender delusions in people’s faces and expect people to unthinkingly affirm their delusions and their preferences, even if their delusions are like some real life expression of the central character in Monty Python’s ‘The Lumberjack Song’.

Vicars, like Rabbis, often have to deal with people in extremis whether that be because of bereavement, job loss, imprisonment, relationship breakdown and have to put their own selves behind them and treat that aspect of themselves as secondary in order to help those that the religious organisation should be helping. They should, in my view, be discreet and sober minded individuals who recognise that the job is not all about them, it’s about the community that they are paid to serve. What’s not needed are those who flounce around drawing attention to themselves and making their position less about serving the community and much more about shouting out the words ‘me, me, me’. If I was the position of needing to speak to a religious leader because circumstances meant that I had to, I’d want to speak to a soberly dressed, compassionate and learned individual who recognised and was sympathetic to whatever plight I was in and who could provide comfort and advice. I certainly would not wish to be in the position where if I was a Christian that the religious leader I was forced to consult was an Uncle Fester lookalike declaring ‘Jesus loves my eyeshadow’ whilst dressed like the ladies clothing rack at the local jumble sale.

Mr Alison could have reconciled his gender delusion with his belief by joining one of the specific churches set up for LGB and T people such as the Metropolitan Community Church, but no he didn’t do that. Instead he pushed for his own church, the Anglican Communion, to become ‘inclusive’ even if making the church as inclusive as he would like might drive away those for whom this sort of mindless inclusivity is anathema to them.

There are some fantastic Anglican vicars and other clerics out there, people who truly serve their faith and their communities day in day out and over many years with little publicity or recognition for what they do. It’s pretty galling to see those who serve their communities properly and faithfully ignored whilst those who play the gender narcissism game are feted, publicised and allowed to push their gender delusions on Anglican communities.

I look at cases like that of Mr Alison and wonder whether or not the church’s embrace of this sort of brain dead naive ‘inclusion’ cult is part of the reason why the Anglican church is losing adherents whilst the more traditionalist Evangelical and Pentecostal churches are growing in strength? Mr Alison should be allowed to believe what he wants and live as he wants but whether he should be allowed to inflict his gender woo on his parishioners is a completely different matter.