[Apologetics] Anglican South Africa Bishop Endorses Homosexuality

[Art Kelly]

Anglican Archbishop Challenges the Church
Cape Town's Ndungane Calls for Acceptance of Gay
Episcopal Cleric

By Jason Kane
Religion News Service
Saturday, May 13, 2006; B09

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Twelve years ago, Anglican
Archbishop Desmond Tutu successfully fought for the
end of legalized racism in apartheid South Africa.
Now, his successor, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane,
has turned his sights on his own church and says the
time has come to abandon its "practices of
discrimination."

Ever since the 2003 consecration of openly gay
Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, Ndungane has made
himself an anomaly in Africa by raising a liberal
voice on a continent where Robinson and the American
church have been loudly condemned.

"The Anglican Communion should be on the forefront of
fighting social ills and not bothering about what Gene
Robinson may be doing or not doing," Ndungane said in
an interview here. "He has been elected by his people
and the people are comfortable with that."

Calling homosexuality a "pastoral, secondary problem,"
the archbishop of the Church of the Province of
Southern Africa estimates that 70 percent of the
world's 77 million Anglicans have grown tired of
discussing the divisive topic and wish to return to
the "life and death issues of this world."

The complete article is at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/12/AR2006051201438.html



                           
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