Pro-gay Anglican say Nigerian Church ‘obsessed’ with gays

21.11.2005- Archbishop  Peter Akinola and leaders of the 25-million strong Anglican Church in other major issues of concern from the perspective of the gospel. The comment came from the Dean of Southwark, the Very Rev Dr Colin Slee, in an interview on the yesterday with BBC Radio 4’s World at one programme, which was exploring the current row over a letter from developing world Primates that appears to challenge the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan William.

He also added that it stood in contrast to the church’s relative silence over “the massive abuse of a women, polygamy, female mutilation and strong ( in Nigeria) for adultery. In particular he criticised the heads of the Nigerian churches for failing to take an adequate stand against the threats of stoning against women caught in adultery under a version of Sharia law.

At the end of St john’s Gospel in the New Testament, Jesus is recorded as having intervened to stop the stoning of a woman caught in adultery, proclaiming “let the one who is without sin cast the first stone.” The Archbishop of Nigeria was also strongly criticised last weekend by Oxford philosophy lecture and vicar of Putney Dr Giles Fraser.

Dr Fraser also quotes Archbishop Akinola as having said “I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. Even in the world of animals, dogs, cows, lions, we don’t hear of such things”, and “God created two two persons- male and female. Now the world of homosexuals has created a third – a homosexual, neither male nor female – a strange two-in-one human.”

Psychologists, theologians, and human rights advocates have condemned such remarks as cruel and inaccurate.

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