Archbishop of Canterbury Condemns Recent Violence Against Gay Christians

To date, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and titular head of the Anglican Communion has been a more or less emasculated leader whose approach to the brutes and bully's within the Church's hierarchy, particularly in Africa, is reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain's dealings with Hitler. Lots of meally mouth niceties, but no backbone and constant caving into those disseminating hate and brutalirty - e.g., Peter Akinola of Nigeria who may be involved in the massacre of Muslim women and children. Hence it is a bit surprising that he has had the courage to even speak out against the violence that has occurred against gay and lesbian Christians at the instigation of other Anglican clerics in Africa in particular. It's a start, but Rev. Williams has miles to go before he can be cited as exhibiting any true leadership in the face of these false Christians. What he really needs to be discussing is the removal of some of these monsters from the Church positions completely. Here are highlights (http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_96365_ENG_HTM.htm):

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has described the recent violence and threats towards "Christians involved in the debate on human sexuality" as "disgraceful." Responding to a press release from Changing Attitude England announcing that gay leaders of the organization's Nigeria branch were seriously assaulted, Williams said: "The Anglican Communion has repeatedly, through the Lambeth Conference and the statements from its Primates' meetings, unequivocally condemned violence and the threat of violence against gay and lesbian people. I hope that this latest round of unchristian bullying will likewise be universally condemned."

"Such inflammatory statements lead some members of Anglican Communion churches to believe that threats and violence against those who are LGBT (or those who support a more open stance towards LGBT people) are not only justified but are authentic expressions of Christianity." Changing Attitude also published an open letter from 20 Anglican leaders to conservative church leaders expressing concern "about the use of incautious language" and urging them to "consider the effects of the language that they use."

The letter, signed by 14 bishops and available here, said: "The discourse taking place in the Anglican Communion about the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in our churches must be conducted in the context of Christian love and mutual respect. If it is not, then people will continue to perpetrate abuse and violence against LGBT people."