ACNA/ANGLICAN GLOBAL SOUTH OBSESSED WITH SEX: ¨Gafcon is clearly living in the past. Its opposition to gay rights smacks of an ´ungodly´ departure...

...from the march of history and the inevitability of equality for all.¨

Welcome to Nairobi

Welcome to All Saints Cathedral by the Archbishop of Kenya and Chairman of GAFCON, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala  -  Photographer: Russell Powell, GAFCON

Photo session with the bishops GAFCON 2013 Photographer: Andrew Gross, ACNA

¨Iconic German economic and political philosopher Karl Marx once opined that “religion is the opium of the masses”.

Obedience to faith is blind, and requires the suspension of reason.  That’s why Pope Francis is such a breath of fresh air – the first Latin Sovereign of Vatican City – has lit the Catholic Church on fire. The man born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has declared several of the Church’s teachings as “heresies”. The most significant of these is the official Catholic view on homosexuality.You don’t have to be an atheist, or an agnostic, to see the wisdom in Mr Marx’s jarring commentary. Since religion is based on faith – and not science – it’s not always rational.

Strangely, while the Catholic Church appears to be finally “seeing the light,” a benighted group of Anglican Bishops is determined to turn the clock back. Meeting in Nairobi a couple of weeks ago, a rebellious group calling itself the Global Anglican Future Conference, or Gafcon, threatened to overthrow the Archbishop of Canterbury, the overall leader of the global Anglican communion.

The group of 331 of the 871 bishops of the global Anglican clergy – drawn from Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, and Australia – accused Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury of ordaining gay bishops and recognising gay marriage.

Their beef with Canterbury is that the gospel should be taught according to Scripture, not “culture”. They vowed to “re-evangelise” the West, which has “gone astray”....please read it all:

Thanks to Standard Digital News, Kenya

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000097277&story_title=the-ground-has-shifted-on-gay-rights-and-the-church-needs-pope-francis

Thanks to Three Rivers Episcopal, sidebar