"When God, who we have established is non-binary... was born in human form as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said, 'Oh, look, a baby boy.'" That's Rev. Flourish Klink, an Episcopal priestess, preaching from what she apparently believes is the Gospel According to Gender Studies.
She wasn't done.
"I think Jesus was not only transfigured, I think Jesus transitioned," Klink told her congregation, arguing that the Resurrection wasn't about conquering death and sin but about Jesus finally getting to live as his "true self, which is beyond male or female." Two thousand years of Christian theology, and it turns out we just needed someone named Flourish to crack the code.
The sermon features Klink building her case with the confidence of someone who has never once considered that she might be wrong. Her argument runs like this: God is "non-binary." God took human form as Jesus. Mary looked at the baby and made an assumption. Then at the Resurrection — when Scripture says the disciples didn't immediately recognize Jesus — that wasn't a supernatural mystery. That was Jesus presenting in his authentic gender identity.
"When we trans people are born, folks assign us a gender based on what they see, then we're old enough we realize that wasn't right," Klink said, before applying that framework directly to the Son of God. "If you're gonna deny God is trans, I think you're going to be denying the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Read that theological judo again. She's not just making a claim about gender. She's pre-framing any disagreement as heresy. You can't object to transgender Jesus without denying His divinity. It's the same rhetorical move we see in every progressive institution — redefine the terms, then accuse anyone who uses the old definitions of being the radical.
The Episcopal Church has been hemorrhaging members for decades, and sermons like this are a pretty clean explanation for why. When your clergy is spending Sunday mornings arguing that the Virgin Mary got her own son's gender wrong, the people still showing up in the pews aren't there for Scripture. They're there for the same reason people subscribe to the New York Times opinion page — to have their existing worldview blessed by someone in a collar.
What makes Klink's argument collapse isn't even theology. It's her own logic. She claims Jesus was "different" after the Resurrection — that He "didn't look like himself" — and concludes this means He transitioned. But the Gospels are specific about what was different. Jesus appeared through locked doors. He vanished from sight at Emmaus. He cooked breakfast on a beach. The disciples didn't recognize Him because His resurrected body transcended physical limitation entirely — not because He changed gender presentation. Klink took a mystery about the nature of glorified existence and stuffed it into a 21st-century identity framework like a square peg into a round hole.
The broader pattern is impossible to miss. Progressive clergy don't bring their politics to Scripture looking for answers. They bring their conclusions to Scripture looking for permission. The text becomes a rubber stamp for whatever the secular left decided last Tuesday. Marriage, sexuality, the nature of God — all of it gets reverse-engineered to match the current thing.
"God is non-binary! God is non-binary!" Klink declared during her sermon.
The Episcopal Church's average Sunday attendance has dropped from over 800,000 in 2003 to under 300,000 today. Flourish Klink isn't the disease. She's the symptom.