Iowa Church Prays To "God Of Pronouns," "The Great They/Them" For Transgender Visibility Day

First Presbyterian Church of Iowa City's congregational prayer to mark the 2022 Transgender Day Of Visibility is...quite something. Yes, yes, I know the PCUSA is WPC Easy Mode, but when I find premium cringe, I'm not going to deprive my viewers.

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This past Thursday, March 31st, was the International Transgender Day Of Visibility. In the PCUSA, we welcome all of our transgender and queer siblings into this family and relationship with the creator god. So today, I wish to pray a prayer that was written for this incredible day. Will you pray with me?

Oh, god of pronouns, we give praise to the great one the one who was identifiable as god. "I am what I am," you say. The great they, the incarnate he and she, the god of trans being. Impregnating Mary, fathering god. Breastfeeding god of many breasts, you shatter all stereotypes, making every single person male and female. Male and female, intersex, non-binary in your image. Exactly in your image.

Spectrum rainbow god, who put your promise for non-violence in the symbol for queer love before humanity knew, because you knew. Who had Joseph who could not sleep with a woman in a beautiful lady's cloak, perhaps of rainbow colors, before we knew, you knew,. God of pronouns who said "You can call me he or she or they, whatever makes you feel closest to me."

Invisible and visible god, on this day where visibility and celebration, belatedness, affirmation, and acceptance is the bare minimum, remind us that you are the god of pronouns, so you affirm and you celebrate them.

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Remind us that you affirm us in our full identity: name, pronoun, found family, all of it. For this we give you thanks and praise to the great I am, the great they/them. Thank you, god, and so now, in the words that our mother, our father, and our sibling god taught us to pray, and pray with us now, [recites the Lord's Prayer].

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWvrnjBMCUc