APOSTATE NEW JERSEY “ELCA” LUTHERAN “PASTOR” ALLOWS SON WHO LIKES PINK, FEMALE FASHION TO “TRANSITION” TO GIRL
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VERNON, N.J. — A pastor of a Lutheran
church in New Jersey was recently featured in an online video in which
he and his wife told the story of their 10-year-old son, who they have
allowed to present as female for the past two years.
Christopher Bruesehoff of Holy Counselor Lutheran Church in
Vernon and his wife Jamie state that their son Benjamin, who now goes by
the name Rebekah, began showing an interest in pink and sparkles at a
young age, and became more discontent with being grouped with the boys.
“Rebekah has always been gender non-conforming,” Jamie
states in the video released by Barcroft TV. “As young as two or three
she gravitated to typically feminine things. She loved pink and sparkles
and all things girly. And that was fine with us.”
By age seven, Benjamin was showing signs of depression and attempted to commit suicide.
“We were faced with a seven-year old kid who wanted to die,”
she recalled. “One time she punched out the screen of her second story
window and tried to jump out.”
Benjamin went for counseling, and one day, while looking for
a gender-neutral swimsuit online, the word “transgender” came up. Jamie
explained to Benjamin what it meant, and he replied that maybe that’s
what he is.
“I felt like I was a girl because I liked the color pink and
I liked girls’ clothes and how they wore their hair and stuff,”
Benjamin explained in the video.
The Bruesehoffs then began allowing Benjamin, who now sports
long pink hair and wears skirts and jewelry, to present himself as a
girl. They put some of his memories away in a container called the
“Benjamin box” as his boyhood was made a thing of the past.
The couple states that the next steps will be to prevent
their son from going through puberty since he does not want to be a boy.
“Medically transitioning involves a lot of different stuff
and every transgender person chooses their own adventure. For Rebekah,
the first steps will be puberty blockers, which will prevent her from
going through male puberty and stop her from developing male
characteristics—like facial hair, a deeper voice and an Adam’s
apple—that are irreversible,” Jamie outlined.
Christopher Bruesehoff, pictured with his son holding a sign
reading “I am transgender and God loves me,” says that he worries how
the Church will react to his son identifying as a girl.
“Our hopes for Rebekah’s future are that she gets to be who
she is as boldly as she wants to be, and that folks are going to accept
her for who she is,” he stated. “I’m always worried about reactions with
Rebekah, both in the community, the church and the world. I’m very
worried about how the world is going to treat her because I see a lot of
ugliness in the world.”
While the couple has received messages from Christians who
have expressed concern, Jamie Bruesehoff contends that there is nothing
wrong with transgenderism and that God created their son to be
transgender.
“Yes, my husband is a pastor. In fact, we both have masters
degrees from theological institutions. Yes, we both wholeheartedly
support our daughter,” she wrote on social media. “No, don’t worry,
we’re not concerned we’re going to Hell for doing so, but thank you for
your concern.”
“She was created by God. She was fearfully and wonderfully
made to be exactly who she is, a transgender child of God,” she
asserted.
HeyerHowever,
not everyone believes that the answer to gender dysphoria is allowing
the person to change their physical appearance. Walt Heyer lived as
Laura Jensen for eight years and even had a job with the U.S. government
while living as a transgender, but says that having a physical
operation did nothing to resolve the mental and emotional struggles that
he faced.
One day while studying psychology at the University of
California, Heyer had an epiphany: He wasn’t a transgender. He was a man
with a psychological problem that trying to live as a woman wasn’t
going to fix. Heyer also learned that his answer wasn’t within himself;
it was in Christ.
So, eight years after obtaining the operation, Heyer
reverted back to living as a man, and now says he doesn’t believe that
people are born transgender.
“Gender dysphoria is a psychological condition where you are
dissatisfied with your gender,” he told the Daily Mail in 2015.
“Nobody’s ever born a transgender. They’re manufactured as a result of
something, a developmental childhood issue that has yet to be determined
for many people. In retrospect, I can see that changing genders, quite
frankly is just pure foolishness.”
Heyer says that those who struggle with the condition are
not receiving proper care, and many medical professionals are too quick
to agree to surgery.
“All of them have some level of depression, and we’re not
treating them,” he lamented. “We’re just cutting off body parts and
giving them a new name and a new gender. … [But] biologically, no one
can transport to the other gender. It’s not even possible.”
The now 76-year-old man runs a website to compassionately
help others who struggle with gender identity or are expressing regret
over having a sex change operation.
“God designed man; He designed women,” he said in a video
recorded in 2014. “God will redeem the lives of people who struggle with
gender identity issues just like I did. He redeemed my life, and I’ve
been free from it as a result of that.”
Jamie
and Rebekah Bruesehoff. A Mom and her 10 year old Trans daughter speak
at the Statewide Trans youth Rally in NJ. The Statewide rally was
organized by Jersey City Stands in partnership with Garden State
Equality was held in Jersey City NJ on Sunday, February 26th at 2PM.
10-year-old
Rebekah Bruesehoff opens up about her transition and how it was made
easy with the help of her supportive parents, Christohpher and Jamie
Bruesehoff.
Broadcast on 31/07/17