Nigerian Prelate Calls for Suspension of Church of England from Worldwide Anglican Communion
Move would place Queen Elizabeth in anomalous position
ABUJA, August 15, 2005

(LifeSiteNews.com) - Peter Akinola, the Primate of Nigeria and one of the most influential Anglican bishops in the world, has called for the suspension of the Church of England, the mother church of Anglicanism, from the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

One of the most fundamental principles of western thought, identified by Aristotle, is called the Logical Principle of Non-Contradiction. Simply put, it means that two opposed ideas cannot both be true. It is not possible, for example, for any body of Christianity to both “celebrate” homosexuality and condemn it.

This principle, however, does not appear to apply to bishops of the Church of England. In an attempt to compromise between Christian sexual morality and modern secular libertinism, the Church of England allows homosexual clergy to “marry” under Britain’s civil unions law as long as they promise not to engage in homosexual practices with their partners. This decision has been widely ridiculed as being in contradiction not only of the Bible and 2000 years of Christian moral teaching, but against the written laws of the Church of England which explicitly condemn homosexuality and forbid gay clergy.

Akinola said, “I believe that the temporary suspension of the Church of England,” is the right course of action to take. The church will be subjected to the same procedures and discipline that America and Canada faced.” He ridiculed the policy, asking the Church of England bishops if they were intending to place cameras in the bedrooms of their clergy.

“I find it incomprehensible,” he said, “that the House of Bishops would not find open participation in such ‘marriages’ to be repugnant to Holy Scriptures and incompatible with Holy Orders.”

The decision of the House of Bishops, one of the two governing bodies of the Church of England, was, in the words of one African prelate, “the final nail in the coffin of the entire Anglican Communion.” Bernard Malango, the Archbishop of Central Africa told journalists that he would be writing an official letter of complaint to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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