Smear Campaign against Nigeria and GAFCON
From Virtueonline
Two Anglican homosexual leaders from a group called Changing Attitude say they were threatened with murder and one was assaulted in Nigeria. They blame the Anglican Church of Nigeria and a group called GAFCON for the assaults.
The Rev. Colin Coward, Director of Changing Attitude England (CA), said he received a text message calling him an "evil homosexual promoter". Mr. Davis Mac-Iyalla, leader of the Nigerian arm of CA, said he was savagely beaten in an attack outside a funeral home.
Both men pointed the finger at the evangelical Anglican Church in Nigeria. They have been supported in those charges by twenty Church of England bishops, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the pansexual American Episcopal organization called Integrity……
…….In their Open Letter to the Leadership Team of GAFCON, they wrote, "You may know that there were several instances of actual physical violence and threats of violence and death enacted against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) leaders of Changing Attitude in Nigeria over the Easter Weekend 2008. The leader of a Changing Attitude group was violently beaten. Subsequently, death threats have been issued against the Directors of Changing Attitude in Nigeria and England.
The Archbishop of Canterbury immediately weighed in saying, "The threats recently made against the leaders of Changing Attitudes are disgraceful. 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."
The unofficial pansexual Episcopal organization Integrity, through its leader the Rev. Susan Russell, applauded the archbishop’s statement. "Integrity thanks Archbishop Rowan Williams for his statement today-which condemned recent violence and the threats of violence against LGBT Anglicans. In too many provinces of the Anglican Communion, the LGBT faithful live in fear of violence and even death because of who they are and whom they love. More often than not, Anglican bishops have been silent about-and sometimes complicit in-bullying and brutality directed at the LGBT children of God."
HOWEVER, there is not one shred of evidence that evangelical Anglicans in Nigeria had anything to do with the attack on Davis. According to the homosexual leader, he was attacked by two men and a woman who drove up in a car and assaulted him with a knife, slashing his hand. They then tried to inject a syringe into him. He was later treated at a hospital and released.
Painting GAFCON and orthodox Anglicans as the culprits in this attack, without proof, is a smear campaign of the highest order that will only further widen the divide between orthodox Anglicans who now make up GAFCON and the liberal dominated Lambeth Conference.
For the Archbishop of Canterbury to have weighed in so quickly begs a number of questions and observations.
Read the whole article HERE.
Changing Attitude’s letter to the GAFCON leadership can be read HERE.
Commentary by Peter Ould HERE and HERE.
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