African Anglicans Slam U.S. Church On Gays

Reuters News reported today the African Anglican church speaking harshly against the U.S. Episcople and Anglican churches’ support for homosexuality.

In an open letter after a meeting in Kampala, they also told conservative Episcopalians that they still supported them in their opposition to the pro-gay stand of the U.S. church, which includes the first gay bishop in the Anglican Communion.

Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, head of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa, said in a letter to the U.S. counterparts, “We have observed the commitment shown by your church to the full participation of people in same gender sexual relationships in civic life, church life and leadership. Our churches cannot reconcile this with the teaching on marriage set out in the Holy Scripture and repeatedly affirmed throughout the Anglican Communion.”

According to this news article, “African bishops, who believe homosexuality is un-biblical, un-African and morally wrong, say the U.S. church is flouting centuries old Anglican teaching and must repent for its actions, raising fears of a schism within the Communion.”

There is a clear theological divide within the same denomination between the Anglos and the Africans. Of special note, is another report some time ago that the Anglo-Anglican churches are dying while the African-Anglican churches are flourishing. A more recent news reported, “Nigeria’s 17 million Anglicans outnumber all the Anglicans in England, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand together.”

Again, conservatively doctrinal churches are growing while liberal churches are declining.

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