(Friday Church News Notes, January 23, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 

The following is excerpted from “Liberal Protestant churches,” Christian Post, Nov. 14, 2025: “Several liberal Protestant and Jewish denominations declared transgenderism ‘holy’ this week … 

[They stated,] ’During a time when our country is placing their lives under increasingly serious threat, there is a disgraceful misconception that all people of faith do not affirm the full spectrum of gender–a great many of us do,’ read the Wednesday statement, which included signatures of leaders from The Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ (UCC), Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Union for Reform Judaism,[Not Christian]an association of Quakers [General Society of Friends General] and others. 

‘Let it be known instead that our beloveds are created in the image of God–Holy and whole,’ the statement said of transgender-identifying individuals. The statement went on to suggest that opposing transgenderism is sinful, reiterating the belief that transgender, nonbinary and intersex individuals are intrinsically holy, which is the only attribute of God magnified to the third degree of repetition in the Bible.”