The Guardian reports that “in an interview with the Ugandan publication the Daily Monitor, the Archbishop of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, said: “They [the progressive churches in the northern hemisphere] have money and will do whatever it takes to make sure that this vice [homosexuality] penetrates Africa. We have to stand out and say no to them.”

The choice of word was revealing (as always, emphasis mine). The archbishop was (in)advertently echoing another enlighten religious leader, the Iranian President Ahmadinejad “In Iran we don’t have homosexuality like you have in [America]” and confirming, if needed that these two have more in common than they would probably admit.

The Guardian also quotes another interview in which the Archbishop said “gay people were trying to take advantage of Africa’s poverty by making donations for schools and scholarships. “We should not accept any donation that comes our way and has strings attached. Some people have already fallen victims in Uganda and we need to stop it”.

He was certainly referring to the mysterious “Gay Agenda” and not to President Bush’s PEPFAR and its abstinence programme ties.

In this context it was refreshing to read the Rt Rev Gene Robinson in The Times feeling sad that “When young men are knifing each other on the streets of London and a billion or more people are living on less than $1 a day, why is the Anglican Communion tearing itself apart over two men wanting to make a Christian family together?”

How is it that those who oppose the Gay Bishop come from countries where HIV is doing the most ravages, countries where condoms are anathema, where the church could accomplish a wonderful work if it was not for backward mentality of church leaders and men preaching out of any sense of reality?

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