Sep 02, 2007Quickie Link: African Churches Welcome US Homophobes
By vanrozenheim
(Kenia) - Bernard Nzimbi, head of the Anglican Church in Kenya, entrenched his anti-gay position by consecrating Anglican clerics Bill Atwood and Bill Murdoch as bishops last Thursday in Kenya. Atwood and Murdoch, from the United States, oppose gay unions, which have been authorised by certain Anglican dioceses in North America. Trevor Mwamba, the Anglican bishop of Botswana, described the decisions by Nzimba and others to consecrate clergymen from the US as “highly regrettable” as it violated the “ancient principle of provincial autonomy by intervening in dioceses and provinces other than their own”. Mwamba likened such actions to “pouring fuel on a fire” and called for “space to cool down”.
