NYC Episcopal priest Flourish Klink claims Jesus is trans and God is nonbinary in outlandish sermon

A New York City Episcopal priest outrageously claimed that Jesus Christ was transgender and that God is nonbinary — a belief once shared by seminarian and Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.Father Flourish Klink, who is nonbinary and transgender, made the outlandish assertions during a recent sermon at Christ & St.Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Upper West Side.“God is nonbinary,” Klink startlingly exclaimed, according to a livestream clip shared on X Wednesday.

“But I’m going to go further than that, and I’m going to say God is actually also trans.”Klink, who prefers “they/elle/hen” pronouns, went on to describe how transgender people are given a gender by “folks based on what they see” when they are born — and used it as grounds to why “God is trans.”“When we’re old enough, we realize that wasn’t right and we’re not, in our deepest selves, the gender that everyone thought we were.Reasonable working definition of a trans person, right?” Klink asked the congregants.“When God, who – as we have established is nonbinary – was born in human form as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said, ‘Oh look, a baby boy.'”Klink, who has a spouse and daughter, paused for a second before claiming, “God isn’t a boy, we have established this.

God is beyond boy and girl.“God was assigned a gender at birth, and later on it became clear that that gender wasn’t right.“So if you’re gonna deny that God is trans, I think you’re going to be denying the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and I have some notes about that,” Klink said.Klink continued the sermon, alleging Jesus didn’t live the traditional life of a man from the first century by not getting married and instead chose to teach and engage with women in unusual ways — instead of the “traditionally masculine way.”The priest used details from the Bible on how Jesus looked different after his resurrection as proof he was trans.“There was something d...