It IS The Gays

Hard on the heels of the letter from the so-called GAFCON Primates, a news story about the Anglican tempest in a teapot appeared in yesterday's Kampala, Uganda Sunday Monitor. "Homosexuality: COU may secede" reads the headline of the online version of the article.

The Rev. Canon Aaron Mwesigye, the provincial secretary of the Church of Uganda, has warned that the unrestrained conduct of some American clergy in endorsing homosexuality could soon cause the Anglican Communion to disintegrate.

“If they don’t change and continue to support homosexual practices and same-sex marriage, our relationship with them will be completely broken,” Canon Mwesigye said.

And in the alternative, suggested Canon Mwesigye, the African churches and many others in the fold would focus on building their individual fellowships, after all what matters in spiritual growth is belief in and worship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

“Anglicanism is just an identity and if they abuse it, we shall secede,” he said. “Yes, we shall remain Christians but not in the same [Anglican] Communion.”

The article also talks about the Church of Uganda's boycott of the upcoming Lambeth Conference, and concludes:

Hajji Katende [head of religious studies] of Makerere [University] predicts a gloomy end to the raging crisis.

“Homosexuality is going to be a very difficult issue to resolve and I think it will eventually lead to the break up of the Anglican Church, just like the Anglican Church initially seceded from the mother Catholic Church,” he said.

We all talk about the power, the politics, and the interpretation of Scripture, but the issue IS homosexuality plain and simple. We can only wonder what or who is next as they try to purify the Anglican Communion.

Peace,
Jeffri