Archbishop of Canterbury lacks the moral justification to challenge Gafcon for rejecting homosexuality
From The Most Rev. Dr. Laurent Mbanda, Primate of Rwanda, from Virtueonline:
In his recent letter to the Primate of the Church of Uganda, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Most Rev. Justin Welby, expressed “grief” and “sorrow” over the Church of Uganda’s support
for the reinforced Anti-Homosexual Law passed by the Parliament and Government of
Uganda. Unfortunately, he did not express any grief or sorrow over the crisis that has torn
apart the Anglican Communion under his watch nor the downward slide of the compromised
Church of England (and the Canterbury Cathedral) which is his See.
We recall that in the past, the Archbishop of Canterbury had issued similar statements
criticising the positions of the Anglican Provinces of Kenya and Nigeria. It seems the history
of colonisation and patronising behaviour of some provinces in the Northern Hemisphere
towards the South, and Africa in particular, is not yet at an end. We commit ourselves strongly
to obedience of the commandments of God as contained in the Holy Bible, one of which is
marriage between man and woman as instituted by God from the beginning of the creation
(Genesis 1:27-28; 2:18, 21-15).
We hereby question the rights and legitimacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury to call the
leadership of Gafcon to honour commitment to Lambeth Resolution I.10, when he has led his
church to undermine the teaching of the church as expressly stated in the same resolution. It
is contradictory and self-serving for the Archbishop of Canterbury to cite Resolution I.10 to
defend practising homosexuals whereas the following very vital parts of the Resolution have
been flagrantly and repeatedly violated by Canterbury and allied western revisionist churches:
– That the teaching of Scripture, upholds faithfulness in marriage between a
man and a woman in lifelong union,
– That it rejects homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture and
– That Lambeth cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same sex unions
nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions;
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