African Anglicans will never accept gay marriage, vows senior Church leader
By Harry Farley, Christian Today:
A senior Anglican leader has vowed African churches will never accept same-sex marriage as he accused the Western church of a quasi-racist attitude towards former colonies.
Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, a global body representing Anglicans in more than 165 countries, claimed African churches “are already progressives” because they do not conform to liberal Western values. Instead they live in “accordance with the will of God in the kingdom of God, which is the real future for humanity that measures all human progress”, he said.
A deep rift exists between Western Anglican churches particularly in the US, where same-sex marriage is celebrated and openly gay clergy are welcomed, and the more conservative African churches who believe the Bible prohibits gay relationships.
“We will never allow our churches to be taken over by views and programmes which suggest that the Bible is wrong,” Idowu-Fearon told African church leaders last week. “We will not crumble or bow the knee to a godless secular culture that despises the Bible and what it teaches,” he said in his address to the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA).
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[Editor’s note: Readers might be interested to compare the sentiments of this speech by Dr Idowu-Fearon to an African audience, with some very different ideas expressed by the same speaker to the Synod in Canada, as summarized approximately halfway through this article . Also, in his speech to CAPA, he said “Don’t be distracted by western progressives. I’ll put you in touch with people you can trust.” He then recommended the Anglican Alliance which is dominated by – western progressives.]
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