After decades of diligent searching, The Episcopal Church has finally found a sentient being who is not entitled to self-identify as the gender of his choice: God. Even though God repeatedly refers to himself as “Father” in his autobiography, TEC is having none of it.

If we let God have its way in this, “our work toward equity will not just be incomplete, I honestly think it won’t matter in some ways”, said Rev. Wil Gafney, a Hebrew Bible professor who currently self-identifies as a woman.

When Gafney preaches ne sometimes refers to God as “She” rather than “He”; pretty offensive, since ne should be using the gender neutral “Ne” “Ze” or “Ve”.

I like to do my bit for the work toward equity.

From here:

The terms for God, in the poetic language of the prayers written for centuries, have almost always been male: Father. King. Lord.

And in the Episcopal Church, the language of prayer matters. The Book of Common Prayer, the text used in every Episcopal congregation, is cherished as a core element of Episcopal identity.

This week, the church is debating whether to overhaul that prayer book — in large part  to make clear that God doesn’t have a gender.

“As long as ‘men’ and ‘God’ are in the same category, our work toward equity will not just be incomplete. I honestly think it won’t matter in some ways,” said the Rev. Wil Gafney, a professor of the Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Texas who is on the committee recommending a change to the gendered language in the prayer book.