New York pastor reveals gender transition during church service with congregants
Rev. Phillip Phaneuf reportedly informed congregants at his Rochester, New York, church on Sunday that he is "giving up pretending to be a man".
On Tuesday's live stream, Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle reacted to footage showing a New York pastor announcing that he's 'transitioning' from male to female during a service with his church's congregation.
Rev. Phillip Phaneuf, of North Chili United Methodist Church in Rochester, reportedly made the declaration during last weekend's Sunday service. Phaneuf could be seen wearing a rainbow-styled stole as he delivered his remarks.
"So I get to announce with joy that I’m transitioning," he said. "I’m affirming to all of you that I am transgender. The best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man. This is a process, and it may be shocking for some as to what this all means," Phaneuf continued.
The pastor added that his parents do not approve of his transitioning. "They texted me this morning, and they asked for me to tell you all that they do not support me and that they have chosen their convictions and their beliefs over supporting their child," the pastor said.
Sheila condemned the pastor's remarks. "I don't know what manner of heresy that I'm looking at there, but I think it's all of them, including the violation of the first commandment, that we shall have no other gods but our one God," she said.
"Because this is him being the god of himself. It's so abhorrent to see this from a pastor, because he is making him the god. He's creating himself in the image of whatever delusion he holds instead of the image of the divine, which the Bible repeatedly says dozens and dozens of times," Sheila continued.
"This is heretical. And I pray for the repose of this man's soul after his death because I think he's going to have some trouble getting into the right place," she added.
According to a report from Fox News, the pastor also announced that he will be changing his name from Phillip to Phillippa and will be using the preferred pronouns of she/her.
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Melvyn Schobel commented 2025-12-07 15:54:23 -0500The first step in liquidating a people, is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
That’s exactly what the ideologists are trying to do because it’s a reflection of where they came from. When a boy becomes a girl and a girl becomes a boy you cannot have any ancestors because that would destroy their narrative. They can’t accept a mother, father or mom and dad, what they fail to understand there are only 2 gametes. An egg and sperm for a female and a male respectively. The fertilization of an egg by sperm gives life, a life that these ideologists are living presently. Don’t they ever wonder where they came from? Denial is their way of life and they will assault a heterosexual for their beliefs by having them put in jail, humiliated, fired from their jobs, kicked out of school and much worse. This article above is right on the money. I hope the silent majority will wake up before it’s too late. It’s not the bad people that are the problem, it’s the good people for not speaking up. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2025-12-03 22:10:50 -0500How utterly repulsive! And I know that if Christ walked into that so-called church, he’d be hauled off by the police. Like the pharisees of old, Christ would tear strips out of them for not obeying him and his heavenly Father.
