Steve Gushee of the Palm Beach Post writes of Archbishop Peter Akinola’s efforts to export his prejudices to the United States:
The great danger in all this — apart from the disgraceful treatment of homosexuals — is the growing power of bigots to use the Bible to condemn those who are different. Christians have long done that against Jews, blacks and women.
They use their religion “as a fig leaf to cover their naked prejudice,” said the Rev. Peter Gomes, preacher to Harvard University who is a black, Republican, Baptist, gay minister.
His simple presence would make Bishop Akinola and his American minions apoplectic. His words condemn them.