I was in John Nemeceks congregation for a number of years...we were one of the last families to leave the church during his time as pastor...he wrote a scathing letter to us telling us we were sinners for leaving the church etc...He was not a tolerant or loving person...and yet he expects others to love and be tolerant of his feelings that he apparently cannot help or control...He was always disturbed by his inability to feel normal according to his own observations...How sad that he put so many others through feelings of guilt for our choices, and showed none of the same grace he now wants and expects. I am truly praying for his family as this must be difficult for all of them. He is very good at manipulating others(including his wife) to see things his way, and causing guilt and doubt if you do not agree with him...This is how Satan works...I think John is influenced by evil...not by christlike actions or behavior. I refuse to call him Julie...He needs to be held accountable.

This article is riddled with factual errors like the main article; for that I'm thankful. But it's still just as shallow. Shallow because even if transgender behavior is sinful, the Church MUST invite everyone and welcome all who accept Christ. Jesus did it. The early Church did it. There's simply no excuse. If the religious leaders don't want to eat with the prostitutes, allow the leaders to leave, not the prostitutes. Some commenters and almost all Christians have jumped to the conclusion that the Bible condemns trans behavior. Clearly you're more concerned with your own feelings than the Bible and I have no doubt you could find some verse or two, twist it, and say it condemns trans behavior. It was once unheard of for a Christian woman to wear pants in church with no hat. We thought it violated Scripture (Deut 22, 1 Cor 13), God's separation of the genders, and was just not "civil." I see zero difference between those archaic attitudes and the attitudes of this article.

Every ten minutes a child is born, 1/2500, in which the doctor cannot determine the sex, or gender. These children are Intersex; they are born into a life of not male or female. Likewise in similar fashion the Transsexual is identified with a Bioneurological congenital condition they too are locked into something not quite so clearly defined as male, or female. The best we can do is live as close to what we seem to believe we are. That may preclude the wants, and often ignorant and bigoted beliefs of others. In what case do we ignore this issue and abandon the children who now cannot hide? How can anyone continue in hate and prejudice so as to deny simple equality and justice? It is either time for change and understanding, or simply extract the transgender element as inhuman and adopt the final solution as Hitler visualized? Not an easy thing to resolve, but one that is present and will not go away.

Quite obviously these "wrestling matches" are fixed.The good pastors should check out Jesus' comments in Mathew 19:12.

I would have to say that the example that is being sent by him coming dressed, if he is, would not be a good one, and he should probably be concerned about that as well as expressing himself as he feels he is. This is the give-away for someone following their own way: They do it no matter who it hurts! The people who feel they would not be accepted within evangelical churches that way would go to "churches" where they feel they would not be ostracized. This battle though, and this SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN! THERE ARE AND I AM CERTAIN THERE ARE, EVANGELICALS WHO STRUGGLE WITH THESE DESIRES, I WOULD HOPE THEY ARE NOT CATEGORIZED INSENSITIVELY WITH HOMOSEXUALS, BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEY ARE NOT. ALSO SOME ARE REALLY REALLY BATTLING AND HOPING AND EVEN MAYBE THINKING THEY CANNOT COME BACK TO GOD, BECASUE OF THIS AND THE PROMISCUITY THAT FOLLOWS, THEY ARE HOPING, SLIGHTLY EVEN, THATPERHAPS THEY CAN MAYBE BE WON TO GOD, PROGRESSIVLEY. BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS, YEARS OF TRAINING CAN HINDER