It’s hard to view the determination of Western Anglicanism to impose its obsessive adoration of homosexuality on African churches as anything other than neo-colonialism.
Yet, the enduring talent of liberal clergy to see everything backwards Through the Looking-Glass results in twisting reality such that “colonialism is largely responsible for the negative attitude toward homosexuality”.
Read it all here:
Colonalism’s legacy seen in marriage debate
Raphael Hess is the Bishop of South Africa’s diocese of Saldanha Bay and describes himself as “coloured,” a term used in South Africa which means he has both Black and white ancestry. His diocese is in the minority in South Africa, having come out in favour of same-sex marriage. It’s a stance Hess describes as honouring, respecting and endorsing it while waiting for the rest of the province to do the same.
He says colonialism is largely responsible for the negative attitude toward homosexuality across Africa. “To reduce it to that only would be to simplify the issue. But certainly we inherit our laws from our colonial past because we’ve been taught that that is wrong … In Africa, those laws are still on our statute books. They weren’t invented by us.”
The Scriptures are quite clear on this issue and for any true Christian not so stand for THE WORD is nothing but a rejection of the Scriptures. If this so-called bishop is true to his word he should resign until he if prepared to accept THE WORD.
Suppose the African left to himself has eyes in his head and brains between his ears about this? Same-sex physical relations have NEVER been a part of African culture. Polygamy, yes, homosex no.
I remember as a Cambridge undergraduate student hearing Bp. Leslie Brown, at one of our CMS missionary breakfasts, speak of the need in Africa to delay the baptism of chiefs till they were dying, because of their “irregular lives”. The reference was to polygamy; the practicalities made a chief’s repentance very hard for the women in such marriages.
“Here is The Wisdom, this is The Royal Law, these are The Lively Oracles of GOD” was “their laws” according to first Missionary to Malawi, explorer and abolitionist, Scots Missionary, David Livingstone, the 150th Anniversary of his death was on May 1st; the same “Lively Oracles of GOD” which will be the first presentation to King Charles III at his May 6th Coronation in Westminster Abbey: where the tombstone of David Livinstone’s earthly remains, his heart buried in Africa, bears the following inscription, “For the love of Christ constraineth me.” + II Corinthians 5:14a Amen.