Nigerian Archbishop Nicholas Okoh: Homosexuality is ¨intended to destroy the established standard of morality¨

New Primate of the Anglican Church, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, has restated the position of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria against the practice of gay marriage in the church


Okoh, who is also the chairman of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, while delivering the sermon of the day, said, “We do not approve of a homosexual lifestyle and same-sex marriages. Some want us to see it as a normal alternative lifestyle to marriage between male and female. We are saying we are sorry, we cannot accept this in the church.¨

The Rt. Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, Church of England, Anglican Communion HERO: English evangelical bishop calls for tolerance HERE

A leading voice in the evangelical wing of the Church of England, Bishop James Jones, speaking to his diocesan synod in Liverpool today says ¨the battle of sexuality in the Church needs to end.¨ +Jones


“My people, the danger in this kind of teaching...¨ +Nicholas Okoh

“The recent statement by the bishop of Liverpool is also not acceptable to us. He said since in the past the church had to live side by side with those who say war is okay and those who say war is alright, they are living together in one church.¨

“If you say homosexuality is okay, you go on, and if you say homosexuality is not okay, we all should go on like that.

“My people, the danger in this kind of teaching is that it establishes two authorities in the church - the scriptures on one hand and the canon of deviant sub-culture. It is intended to destroy the established standard of morality as it is written in the Bible.” HERE

WHY I WRITE
by Kayode Oladele, Nigeria

¨The first reason why I write is that I want to challenge ignorance. There is a lot of ignorance around us; even among those we think or believe they know. Too often, we concede too much to people, believing that they know, only for us to discover, when it is too late that they do not know. The most dangerous form of ignorance in Nigeria today comes from our leadership, many of those who govern us do not know, they do not care to know and they do not want to know. Even when they are told that they do not know, they get angry, instead of looking up to their inadequacy and how to rectify them, they turn the heat on those who told them so.¨ HERE


UPDATED: ¨So instead of focusing his moral leadership on, say, inter-religious violence and the need for Christians and Muslims to find a way to live together peaceably for the good of Nigeria, Okah talks about homosexuality.¨
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·Thanks to The Punch, Nigeria
·Thanks to The Bishop of Liverpool
·Thanks to Kayode Oladele
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·Thanks to Episcopal Cafe
·Thanks to The Times, UK
·Thanks to Ruth Gledhill
·Thanks to Andrew Gerns

TAKE ACTION AGAINST BIGOTRY AND IGNORANCE: The ANGLICAN UN, United Nations, HUMAN RIGHTS Observer, Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa from Uganda, has an office and staff provided by the Episcopal Church (USA) at the Church Center 815 Second Avenue, New York, 10017. The direct office line is (001) 212-716- 6263 and the email address unoffice@episcopalchurch.org


Lionel Deimel, Anglican HERO, click HERE,¨No Anglican Covenant¨