South African Anglican priest Jo Mdhlela says that Jesus supports gay rights. His church doesn't like it, it has been reported.But Mdhlela compares to denying equal rights to gays is equivalent to supporting apartheid.
Jesus is challenging churches," he told his congregation. "Jesus is saying if you said apartheid was unjust then you must say laws discriminating against homosexual people are unjust."
South Africa backs the official Anglican line that gay priests may be ordained as long as they remain celibate. But Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has distanced himself from conservative African bishops who say being gay is wrong.
His famed predecessor Desmond Tutu said he was "ashamed to be Anglican" when the church rejected proposals to reform its stance on gay clergy in 1998, according to a new biography, and has compared homophobia to apartheid.
Compare that to comments by Lagos Archbishop Peter Akinola, Africa's leading opponent of gay clergy: "I personally think that this is an attack on the Church of God, a Satanic attack.
"I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. It is so unnatural, so unscriptural. Even in the world of animals, dogs, cows, lions, we don't hear of such things."
Studies have shown that the more homophobic a man, the more likely he is a closet homosexual.
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