News from Finland Follows.
For our Finnish speaking readers here's the YLE link:
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/oikea/id107158.html
For everyone else:
In Finland, Imatra, the local vicar (I think the translation vicar, a clergyman, I mean a clergyman) is going to undergo a sex change operation. A Finnish newspaper interviewed the man, soon to be woman, who told the media he had been found transgenered and will begin the corrective treatments early next year.
The local bishop in the Church has promised to talk with the man in person next week and discuss whether it will be possible for the vicar to continue in his current occupation.
I'm sure the bishop is in a difficult position. The church in Finland cannot really hold on to all of the traditional views and you most certainly cannot fire an employee over a medical procedure. On the other hand, I assume, it will be difficult for the bishop personally to accept this change. And it will most definitely set a precident in Finland. It should be interesting to see the follow up. Remember, the idea of allowing gay people to register their relationship is a relatively new idea - allowing gay people to work for the church is newer still.
I personlly hope he wil be allowed to continue should he so choose and I hope the congregation is open-minded enough to accept him back to his old duties once the treatments are over.
OP out.
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For a change. Indeed. Well, no decisions have been made of him needing to resign so let's keep our thumbs up for him...that is, her.
ReplyDeleteThis is obviously one of the most controversial jobs to have when you decide to "come out of the closet" with a thing like this. Shows guts, definitely. Have to wonder, however, how does a very religious man/woman come in terms with a thing like this - with your own feelings being in conflict with your religion (at least the fundamendalist view of of it).