AFRICAN ANTI-GAY BISHOPS SPEAK OUT
Henry Luke Orombi.
African bishops attending an Anglican conference in Uganda this week have made clear their continued anti-gay stance.
The Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA) All Africa Bishops’ Conference in Entebbe was opened with a sermon by the Archbishop of Cantebury Rowan Williams whose talk was met with a lukewarm response.
Although Williams did not directly mention the contentious issues of gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex relationships, he appears to be seen as a supporter of LGBT equality in the church by a number of the attending bishops.
“It is good Archbishop Rowan is here. We are going to express to him where we stand,” commented Ugandan Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, reported SAPA.
“Homosexuality is incompatible with the word of God,” he added.
Orombi is not a supporter of the anti-gay legislation pending in his country that seeks to impose the death penalty in certain cases of homosexual behaviour, but has previously made clear his belief that “homosexual practice has no place in God’s design of creation…”
Reverend Ian Ernest of Mauritius also affirmed his opposition to the church embracing its LGBT members and said that he had already severed ties with North American churches that have ordained female or gay or lesbian clergy.
“Today, the West is lacking obedience to the word of God,” he told journalists. “It is for us (Africans) to redress the situation.”
Williams has been struggling to hold the global Anglican Communion together in the face of the controversial issues, but some bishops expressed their belief at the conference that it is too late and a split has already taken place.
The Anglican Church in South Africa has been a lone voice in Africa calling for tolerance and acceptance of gay and lesbian people.
YAWN. Does anyone actually care what a bunch of Neanderthals “think”.
It is time they realised they they had made themselves totally irrelevant in the moden world .
The church has never respected human dignity,and has encouraged ignorance. So it will be passed by
Bunch of clowns…. How, may I ask, do they intend to “redress the situation” with the West? One just has to look at the state of their own country – and Africa in general – to know these idiots are nothing but self-deluded, incompetent fools. They couldn’t direct piss into a bucket nevermind trying to convince a largely enlightened West that being gay is wrong. What they should be doing is praying for their own souls for the evil they are doing. They are weak-minded but smart enough to know that to get rich quick one just has to preach and the fools will throw money at you. And with money comes power. And (political) power is the true god they worship!!
Anglican Church Bipshopz View. I think everyone has a right to express his/her view and believes. I dont think this should become a question of the church as whole rather be for an individual members. Everyone reads the Bible, let the Anglican Church not decide on behalf of its members except if She is practizing autocratic governing way!! Please let every memmber of the church decide as he/she lead by holly Spirit. God bless