Andrew Pierce, writing in The Telegraph, wonders what it will take for the Archbishop of Canterbury to denounce the public bigotry of the Archbishop of Nigeria.
As a humble lapsed Catholic, I shall not speculate about what the omnipotent one thinks of Rowan Williams, although I can’t believe he approves of that terrible beard.
But I would hazard a guess as to what he thinks of Peter Akinola, the Archbishop of Nigeria.
Akinola, the arch-enemy of Robinson, likens homosexuality to “bestiality …a form of slavery”, and describes homosexuals as being “lower than beasts”.
Over the years, I have had a fair few homophobic insults directed my way. It’s the usual vulgar bar-room banter: pervert, poofter, queer, shirt-lifter, to mention but a few.
But when the abuse comes not just from an educated man, but a committed Christian who may yet become the leader of a breakaway church, it is shocking.
Even more shocking is, as Robinson pointed out in his BBC interview, the failure of Williams to denounce in unequivocal terms the bigot in a prelate’s clothing.
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