At the moment, the priest is dedicated, among other things, to visiting schools to motivate young people belonging to the LGBTIQ+ community to be active participants in the church.
Source: Infobae
While reading Genesis, in the Old Testament of the Bible, Bingo Allison, 36, claimed to have had an epiphany. It was seven years ago when he, reading the holy book, realized his true identity: he called himself a non-binary person. Made up, with long hair and wearing the characteristic clothing of his office, the English priest has generated hundreds of reactions around the world, particularly among the most conservative. Allison is part of a church in Liverpool, England.
“My views used to be very traditional and certainly very conservative. Some might call them intolerant and there was a lot of ignorance and a lot of ‘otherness’. I didn’t take the time to learn from other people’s experiences. I was definitely in a lot of denial and some of that denial manifested itself in the denial of the identities of others.”assured the vicar in an interview with the local media ‘Liverpool Echo’.
A non-binary person, according to what the ‘every’ portal explains, is one who does not feel identified “with the hegemonic gender binaries, that is: man or woman”. According to what he revealed, it was difficult for him to make the decision to assume his identity. He confessed that on several occasions that doubt invaded his mind. He was married, and has three children. The biblical text that helped him understand himself better reads: “And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
That section, he says, made him understand that the book did not talk about ‘men and women’, but rather, on the contrary, it referred to ‘masculinity and femininity’, two totally different concepts. “It was a deeper spiritual experience, I correctly felt that God was leading me towards this new truth about myself”, affirmed the priest in his talk with the medium already referenced. Allison lives in Norris Green.
At the moment, the priest is dedicated, among other things, to visiting schools to motivate young people belonging to the LGBTIQ+ community to be active participants in the church
“I was sitting there in the middle of the night when I realized that I might need to change my life. It was a deeper spiritual experience, I correctly felt that God was leading me to this new truth about myself. One of the things that has stayed with me in ministry ever since is that transition and coming out can and should be a spiritual experience, as well as an emotional, social, and sometimes physical experience.”added to his story the religious.
It is important to note that this situation, although it is reproached by those who maintain traditional behaviors, was accepted by St. Margaret of Antioch Church, the entity in charge of ordaining him as a priest. That institution has positively highlighted the work that he has carried out Allison in making trans people visible and promoting the acceptance of equal marriage.
At the moment, the priest is dedicated, among other things, to visiting schools to motivate young people belonging to the LGBTIQ+ community to be active participants in the church. “They are young. We talked about trans and queer people before I changed. I’m not an alien to them. It was difficult to talk about it in my life. When you are married, they think you are gay, but things are more complex, ”he explained in an original podcast on the British BBC.
“The The history of biblical interpretation is littered with the opinions of wealthy, white, straight, cisgender, non-disabled, neurotypical men, assuming that everyone who reads them thought like them. The prejudices this creates exclude anyone who doesn’t fit in from fully engaging with the Bible.”commented on it.
