By Myers Lugemwa
With a meek and humbled heart, allow me to react to the response by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, that was published in The New Vision of July 4. I am not an authority in secular matters and, therefore, not the right person to react to the Archbishop’s views on the recently-concluded Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) that was held in Jerusalem.
Nevertheless, since I opted to be a religious person through baptism, confirmation and endeavouring to follow the religious dogma, I believe that I can comment on his lordship’s stance on gayism and homosexuality because these two vices have existed since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, albeit their being practiced incognito in normal societies. Thus, I will, therefore, comment as a medical doctor, religious and presumably-sober human being.
Genesis: 1:26 urges man, to “go into the world, be fruitful and multiply.†Gays or homosexuals can neither be fruitful nor multiply.
It is well known that if any of us, including the consecrated Bishop Gene Robinson in the US, had gay parents, we would not have been born. While studying in Israel, I was privy to, which I believe the scars of Sodom and Gomorrah, terms which emanate or connote punishment for those practicing homosexuality at the time.
The silence of Canterbury, its slow reaction or condoning consecration of gay bishops in the Anglican Church or any other human society, creates a recipe for a similar Sodom and Gomorrah in the 21st Century.
Even the smallest animal like amoeba and malaria parasites or plasmodium do not practice male to male reproductive physiology.
Structures differentiated into male or female gadgets are scientifically known to naturally have been created by God to enable the female-male element to exist, in order, among other things to propagate nature.
I trust that Bishop Robinson and all those in his world cannot promote this activity. Where the shall the next clergy come from if Canterbury does not see silence or acts condoning on gayism as a recipe for extinction of the Anglican Church and annihilation of man-kind?
When God created the two sexes, He intended that through man-woman sexual contact, propagation may continue to prevail. In order to have someone different from man, therefore, he called this other person, woman.
These two biologically different human beings are what, once they mate, creates you and I and all the over five billion people, religious, sinners, atheists, lunatics, kings archbishops and popes.
In the medical profession, including psychology, we refer to people who deviate from normal physiological processes as sick or a patient.
When someone feeds through the nose to the stomach in a tube (nasal-gastric tube) or gets oxygen through an oxygen mask, that person is a patient.
When a person has sex through the rear entry of a fellow man or woman, they can be classified under this category.
Therefore, people who, unless they are not patients, but for one reason or another prefer the company of their fellow men or women in bed, are diagnosed to be suffering from sex perversion and deserve psychiatric attention. Such people do not deserve promulgation of their heinous, unnatural, act like Canterbury has done.
In so doing, I see The Archbishop of Canterbury going down in the archives of religion as the first Archbishop, who has worked for the decimation of the Anglican Church.
I, and millions of Christians the world over, pray that the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit, whose works pass all human understanding, illuminates the path that Canterbury has hitherto taken, so that not only logic, science, biblical teaching can help us rescind and revoke what has been done so far, but bring to a halt on what I see as a thorny path for Christianity.
The writer is a Christian
at crossroads