Rowan Williams, guys, not William Rowan.

Glad to hear that FINALLY someone has stood up to the Church, at least the Anglican Church, and said that enough bigotry and hatred has been spewed in the name of God! Time for the American Catholics to join with the Episcopalians....don't you think?

Money talks, bs walks. The American Episcopalian Church (read: megabucks) is bankrolling the rest of them in their outfits and all, so guess who doesn't have to compromise.

The Anglican Communion rightly welcomes ALL people to Christ’s table, but that the leadership position of Bishop (i.e., Gene Robinson) should not be filled by a person who is sexually active outside of wedlock (regardless of orientation). The Episcopal Church (i.e., Schori) thinks that sexual activity outside of wedlock is NOT a sin and is certainly fine at the Bishop level.

The Anglican Communion is apparently in communion with Peter J Akinola's (head of the Anglican Nigerian Church) reported support for a draconian anti freedom bill that will throw any person that attends a church that has a same sex commitment ceremony in prison for five years. LGBT Nigerians will be thrown in prison for assembly, seeing their lawyer, having lunch together, or even speaking in favor of human rights for LGBT Nigerians. The law even abrogates freedom of religion.

Akinola wrote to his US 'flock' (which reportedly includes Attorney General Gonzales, Rep. Bob Aderholt (R-ALA), Tucker Carlson, Fred Barnes, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), and Robert Bork, Jr.) in December that there were some human rights concerns with the bill. However, he is reportedly still supporting the bill as has not repudiated his prior written public support for the law in Nigeria (Ibadan Communique) and has been reported to be agitating for the bill passage again. The head of CANA, Martin Minns, was asked about the legislation by a reporter in February and appeared to me to give Akinola support for the legislation a pass.

Akinola continues to recieve glowing reports in the viciously anti-Gay Nigerian press (and orthodox Anglican Press) about his support for the law. To my knowledge, there has never been any public pronouncement in any form in a Nigerian forum that shows Akinola distancing himself from his prior written support for the bill.

Akinola's (and by extension - its' US subsidiary in the 'orthodox Anglican church' - CANA) continued reported support for the law is quite disturbing and in my opinion, a much graver violation of Anglican doctrine than the elevation of an openly Gay man to be Bishop of New Hampshire.

The response of orthodox Anglicans appears to me to be: Given that the US Episcopal church ordained an openly Gay man to be a Bishop, we will pledge our loyalty to jailing all Gays and anyone who supports them.

Jim, I'd like for you to tell me what you think of CANA, Minns, and Akinola's law.

Orthodox Anglicans like Akinola and CANA apparently welcome Gays - to be thrown in jail (where, given the current state of Nigerian jails, probably means to be beaten, possibly killed, and certainly mistreated) for the crime of existing.

The liberal sheeple are fooled again. The reason that law was made was because African countries are trying to stop the AIDs epidemic there. So, in effect, they are making it illegal to be gay so that it lowers the STD transfer between homosexuals, which is more rampant in Africa than in the United States. Don't kill the messenger here, I'm just saying thats why the law was created, not because the people there hate gays. Instead of blindly following TEC's press releases, do a little looking elsewhere and you'll find the truth. You would be suprised about how much propaganda is used on TEC's website.