[Ed. Note: Typical of information printed by the liberal press, Dr. Akinola does not favor legislation that has been debated in Nigeria for almost 2 years, about open homosexual behavior within the culture. Nigeria is struggling to remain non-Islamic - parts of it are under Sharia Law - in which blatant homosexual behavior is punishable by death. Homosexual activists in this country have no concept of what their comments mean in Nigeria. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
By: ANDY HUMM
05/10/2007
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The Anglican bishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, who favors laws in his country banning any form of association among gay people, came to Woodbridge, Virginia, this week to install Bishop Martyn Minns as the leader of a diocese called the Convocation of Anglicans within North America, that would be under his African Communion.
Minns wants his convocation to replace a U.S. Episcopal Church that he and other conservatives oppose for its acceptance of Gene Robinson, an out gay man, as bishop of New Hampshire and for allowing the blessing of same-sex unions by some dioceses. But Minns has attracted just 30 of the 7,000 Episcopal congregations to their convocation thus far, the New York Times reported.
Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, including the U.S. Episcopal Church, tried to dissuade Akinola from his incursion into American Church politics as did Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding Episcopal bishop. But Williams and his fellow primates have given Schori until September 30 to end the practices conservatives object to or risk expulsion from the wider Communion.
Several U.S. bishops have already indicated that they will not go along with the anti-gay ultimatum.
