ELCA Bishop Megan Rohrer, a transgendered man (ie, a woman who refuses to use female pronouns and instead insists on identifying as “they/them” and even the occasional “he) who oversees California’s Sierra Pacific Synod, shared a video series she is doing for children where she retells Bible stories in illustrated fashion, as part of the Holy Saturday vigil. Here, she claims that the three young men who refused to bow down to the statue in Daniel 3 were in fact, transgender slaves.
She explains her foolish-heart-is-darkened logic:
Previously on the book of Daniel, four Jewish individuals who had been captured in war were sent to work with the lead eunuch in the court of the evil king Nebuchadnezzar. They worked as slaves and received new names which they all used except for Daniel. Because they were transgender, they wore fancy robes and served in the highest offices of the court overseeing finances and education of the region.
…Daniel made a deal with his boss to get out of eating defiled food and instead only eat a vegetarian diet. By refusing to eat the food of the king, they were breaking the law but honoring their God. They were able to get away with it because their bodies continued to please the king and others in the court, who liked to look at them. And probably other stuff.
….these transgender slaves disobeyed the king’s command and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god other than their own.
h/t to Exposing the ELCA
