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some internet atheist blogger did some digging to find evidence of ted haggard-like hypocrisy and couldn't find any:
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/does-this-drag-loving-trans-pretending
tho I don't like that the author thinks it's clear that copeland was "pretending" when it seems possible that he was experiencing real gender incongruence and just didn't feel able to identify as a woman outside of an online persona
fwiw, the church copeland belonged to was part of the alabama cooperative baptist fellowship. I searched them to see if there were rancid anti-trans remarks from them and didn't find anything from the specific church copeland was a pastor at, but these two articles showed up
https://baptistnews.com/article/cbf-church-booted-from-southern-baptist-association-for-embracing-lgbtq-members/ - a CBF church in georgia getting kicked out of some other baptist group for welcoming lgbt members
https://www.christianpost.com/news/cbf-church-ordains-first-known-transgender-pastor-in-its-history.html - a CBF church in indiana having a trans pastor