The Most Rev Peter AkinolaAn editorial in the Lagos, Nigeria, newspaper This Day sees the Episcopal Church’s ordination of Gene Robinson and acceptance of homosexual behaviour as evidence that America’s laissez-faire attitude has infected the church.

[T]he curious ordination of Jean [sic] Robinson, a gay Bishop, a couple of years ago, manifestly proves that not even the sanctity of divine laws espoused by the major religions can tame the wild libertine philosophy of the American society.

Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola (at right) is commended for resolutely resisting that pernicious influence.

Archbishop Peter Akinola, the primate of the Church of Nigeria, (Anglican Communion) has been in the fore of the fight against this weird intrusion into the Christian faith. Just like most parts of the world were shocked with that ordination, Akinola has earned accolades from around the world for his doggedness in condemning the practice; at one point threatening to lead other African countries out of the Anglican fold if the practice of gay ordination continues.
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We . . . see the resistance of Akinola and other clergymen as a way of not only promoting compliance with the Biblical values and teachings by adherents of the Anglican faith; but also protecting the socio-moral values of the African society. Indeed, as Africans, the prisms of our social ethos are anchored on family values. It is the nurture of such family values that ensure the continuation of mankind.

The editorialist recalls the example of Nigerian Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma who publicly rebuked a pro-homosexual Anglican at the 1998 Lambeth Conference.  (This Day mistakenly says that happened in 1993.)

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