Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible and Saman broadcast with another Hank unplug short.

This one is of a very serious nature.

I read the AP News this morning and saw the headline evangelical Lutheran Church installs first transgender bishop. And they did so on the 20th anniversary of 9-11. The story is about Reverend Megan

Rurer, who is now going to lead one of the church's 65 synods overseeing 200-some congregations.

I should mention because of the magnitude of this event that the

evangelical Lutheran Church in America is one of the largest Protestant denominations in the

entire United States. They boast some 3.3 million members.

And again, all of this to say that the matter at hand is not trifling.

This is a matter of tampering with natural law.

And to deny natural law is to strike, well, to strike at the very foundation of human civilization.

Throughout human history, gender and sex have always been coupled together.

It has always been self-evident truth that men cannot become women or vice versa.

You can change, well, you can change outward appearances, but it is impossible to change

biological realities on a cellular level.

In other words, you can't scrub out your chromosomes.

So what the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America is doing

is simply succumbing to the onslaught of a liberal liberalism.

And this is one more step, another step in the collapse of Western culture, a culture

that was once the greatest mission-sending force in the entire world.

I have quoted a prominent psychiatrist on this matter.

In the past, his name is Dr. Paul McHugh, a distinguished professor

of psychiatry, and that at Johns Hopkins University. He famously said, after being involved in the practice of trying to transition people from one gender to another,

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