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philosoraptor42The Archbishop of Canterbury has been oddly silent about the recent moves to pass a new law in Uganda which will punish homosexuality with the death penalty . Meanwhile other members of the Anglican Church have been rather more vocal on the matter:
He goes on to claim that homosexuality is actually worse than AIDS:
So far this probably sounds a bit mean of me. We all know that Rowan Williams' normal reaction to extreme views in the Anglican Church is to ignore it. His main aim has always been to bend over backwards for the sake of unity, hasn't it?
Well actually there was a recent issue for which he felt it was important to rush out a press release. The election of a new assistant bishop:
I felt that this message (left) was probably the best response to both Rowan Williams (right) and Bishop Joseph Abura.
(Via Andrew Brown's Blog)
Rather oddly, I discovered this story on Andrew Brown's blog. There've been some pretty awful posts in the past, such as the one where he defines 'New Atheism', the one where he posts Clifford Longley's response to the atheist bus campaign (which he later admits seems to be wholly cut-and-pasted from creationist websites), and most horrifically the one where he claims that contemporary atheism is classist (which provoked a very eloquent response from Ariane Sherine, creator of the atheist bus campaign). As such, I'm very pleased he has miraculously produced a piece of work which seems to get the whole issue entirely right for a change.
Cross-posted to atheism
The Catholic Information further reveals that Christian Organizations are alarmed over the Bill. For example, among others, the Executive Council of the Anglican Church in Canada voted unanimously to oppose the Bill, that it is a “fundamental violation of human rights”. That 17th November was dedicated as international day for prayer on the issue. They are challenging their sympathizer, Archbishop (of Canterbury) Rowan to give his comment and stop it.Those are the words of Bishop Joseph Abura of Karamoja Diocese (Province of the Anglican Church of Uganda).
It is indeed appalling to read of all these and the agitation there in. It is indeed deplorable that humanity has or is nearing extinction just like the time of Noah and the flood in the Book of Genesis chapters 6 and 7. Yes the Lord Jesus prophesied of the last days that people will be lovers of self. Truly, humans have natural evil bent. They are bent to evil by nature. Laws, rules, commandments are in place geared towards saving man from own direction and destruction.
He goes on to claim that homosexuality is actually worse than AIDS:
Homosexuality and lesbianism is now being exported to the rest of the world, to Africa and Latin America, and elsewhere. They want to coerce African parliaments like the Ugandan one to condone and legitimize the vice. They want it to become a virtue. God forbid. But, should lesbianism and homosexuality be left to thrive and invite God’s judgment upon the world? Can’t this illness like HIV/AIDS be fought? AIDS/HIV is not against the Bible and the Word of God, but homosexuality does because it is spiritual. Why accept to compromise and destroy self and entire human race? Yes, God punishes sin, He punishes all sin. “The wages of sin is death”” (Romans 6:23), eternal death. The world then has to be punished.Also apparently the solution to both AIDS and homosexuality should both be to set up new laws. This must be that Christian love we hear so much about:
Yes, laws if in place can help put on check any vice including this one. Like HIV which breads among others, in disco halls and night drinking sprees, which can be stopped or reduced by laws if put in place, like the wizard spirit which society and the Gospel of Christ shunned, the vice of homosexuality through the necessary laws in place can be checked. We must keep it away from our children. Our ancestors didn’t know it, we do not know it, our children must not know it.
So far this probably sounds a bit mean of me. We all know that Rowan Williams' normal reaction to extreme views in the Anglican Church is to ignore it. His main aim has always been to bend over backwards for the sake of unity, hasn't it?
Well actually there was a recent issue for which he felt it was important to rush out a press release. The election of a new assistant bishop:
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected a lesbian as assistant bishop, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first.Actually, Rowan Williams exact words in his swift press release regarding this assistant bishops' election was as follows:
The bishops of the Communion have collectively acknowledged that a period of gracious restraint in respect of actions which are contrary to the mind of the Communion is necessary if our bonds of mutual affection are to hold.So what do we gauge from this? Well it seems that outright bigotry and prejudicial laws in Africa are happily ignored, while the election of an assistant bishop in America might lead to a loss of affection from the Archbishop. I doubt I'm the only person reading this shit who thinks Rowan Williams has a very odd set of priorities.
I felt that this message (left) was probably the best response to both Rowan Williams (right) and Bishop Joseph Abura.
(Via Andrew Brown's Blog)
Rather oddly, I discovered this story on Andrew Brown's blog. There've been some pretty awful posts in the past, such as the one where he defines 'New Atheism', the one where he posts Clifford Longley's response to the atheist bus campaign (which he later admits seems to be wholly cut-and-pasted from creationist websites), and most horrifically the one where he claims that contemporary atheism is classist (which provoked a very eloquent response from Ariane Sherine, creator of the atheist bus campaign). As such, I'm very pleased he has miraculously produced a piece of work which seems to get the whole issue entirely right for a change.
Cross-posted to atheism
