(ChurchLeaders) Just one month after their pastor announced she is transgender, a church in Ontario, Canada has voted to remove her from her position. Junia “June” Joplin told the members of Lorne Park Baptist Church she is transgender in a sermon streamed online on June 14, 2020.
For Joplin, coming out is an expression of her God-given identity: “I want to be the person that God created me to be,” she said in her sermon. “I want to experience the health and wholeness and abundance of life that Christ has been calling me to experience.”