Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, the Church of Uganda supremo, has
finally broken his silence on gay clergymen: they don’t belong in the
Anglican faith.
Speaking at a press conference at his residence on
Namirembe Hill on Tuesday, Archbishop Ntagali said the idea of having
gay bishops is an ‘unbiblical decision’ and a ‘spiritual cancer’ in the
Anglican faith.
The remarks come ten years after the first gay
bishop, Gene Robinson, was consecrated in the Diocese of New Hampshire,
in the United States. Bishop Robinson’s consecrated caused a rift in the
global Anglican faith, which Archbishop Ntagali calls tearing the
fabric of the Anglican Communion at its deepest level.
Ntagali, the former Masindi Kitara Diocesan bishop, was installed as archbishop in December last year.
The archbishop said the Anglican Church is built
on the doctrines of Biblical teaching which only recognize hetero-sexual
relationships.
The Ugandan Anglican community takes exception of
the decision by the England House of Bishops to allow gay bishops as
part of the Anglican clergy, he said, and thus will have a Global
Anglican Future Conference in Nairobi, Kenya this October to resolve the
issues.
The Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon)
will be the second of its kind that brings together Archbishops around
the world who oppose gay bishops. In 2008, the anti-gay Anglican Church
leaders gathered in Jerusalem, Israel to reflect on the future of the
church.
Archbishop Ntagali, with these remarks, is picking
off from where his predecessor left off: Henry Luke Orombi was one of
the main organizers of Gafcon 2008, and also made several pastoral trips
to several countries to preach against gay clergy and gay marriage.
SOURCE:Daily Monitor
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