It's nice to know not all the leaders in South Africa have lost their minds. Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has stepped forward to endorse gay unions. We'd prefer marriage, but beggers can't be choosers. He says:
We should try to find solutions of living with difference and otherness. Diversity is the creation by the Almighty… we need to embrace, all of us, in our differences and seek to walk together.
As the international Anglican Church battles itself over the role of homos in the church and beyond, Ndungane's words undoubtedly make a mark. They've certainly gotten a reaction from the Church of Nigeria, according to Pink News UK which call calls gays:
…A cancerous lump in the body (which) should be excised if it has defied every known cure. To attempt to condition the whole body to accommodate [them] will lead to the avoidable death of the patient.
Well fuck you, too, Church of Nigeria.
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Hey kids, I know you're godless pagans, God love ya, but gotta work on those facts. The Anglican Church in South Africa is very much empathetic with the church in the US and Canada, so the Archbishop's statement, though welcome, is no surprise. Bishop Desmond Tutu is also a South African cleric and a friend not only to the GLBT community, but also to the newly elected Presiding Bishop of the Episcopalian Church, who horrors of horrors, is a girl.
There is no such thing as the "international Anglican Church". There is an "Anglican Communion" which consists of historically connected national churches, each autonomous in its structure. Some in this communion, concernred that they will get girl or GLBT cooties, don't want to play in the same sandbox with the Canadians and Americans anymore. Their loss.
Bishop Akinola of Nigeria is the biggest boob in the Universe. He trots around the world flying first-class and staying in luxurious lodgings while his home country is falling apart at the seams. He tours the world to condemn gays, when he knows NOTHING about us, while the most outrageous abuses of women, children and other innocent people are COMMONPLACE in his country, yet he says nothing about them.
He is charlatan of the worst sort.
The Catholic church is very hypocritical about its relations with Africa as well. Catholic priests across much of Africa are MARRIED and allowed to have sex with women and the Vatican says nothing about it. It is incredible hypcrisy. The Vatican figures this is what they have to allow to keep people enslaved by the church in Africa. It is absurd.
The best thing that Big Pete of Nigeria can do for the Anglican Communion is keep talking so that all can know that a Christ-like leader he is not. At some point, American traditionalists will understand with whom they are in bed — And they're worried about our sleeping arrangements!
your use of the word "fag" is offensive and disgusting. most gay men today do not have the radically in your face view that being gay means we are "fags" are less manly than heterosexual males. most of us embrace normalcy and don't revel in being offensively subculture or weird.
Sorry, Javier, you don't get to speak for the gay community at large. The "majority" of us gay men aren't anything, except into guys.
But with that said, I will say that though I respect Mr. Belonsky's wide scale of subject matter and his obvious interest in keeping Queerty colorful, I will say that there is a fine line between creative liberty and unprofessional. Sometimes the language overall, including the occasional referral to individuals' sexualities as "likes cock" or "eats pussy" when that is insignificant to the context, is a little over the top for me. I'm no prude, and I'm not into kowtowing to the majority in terms of presenting us queers as complacent and "respectable," but this *is* a news blog, of sorts, and I like being represented with a little class. Might as well not help their side, y'know?