Consecrating a gay bishop was an abomination
The consecration did not really come as a surprise to anyone. I don't think anyone expected the diocese to elect a bishop only to back down about consecrating him.
I am also very sure that the pro-gay lobby groups see this as some sort of victory, some defiant gesture that will make the rest of Christians see homosexuality in a new light (and probably rewrite the Bible to give it a new pro-gay look).
Sorry folks. Homosexuality was a sin in the days of Sodom, is a sin today, and will always be a sin as long as God reigns supreme.
Consecrating Robinson as a bishop changes nothing, and I believe few people who were opposed to homosexuality before the consecration are going to change their minds about this unnatural practice.
But in one respect, they have succeeded - making the provinces of the Anglican Church to part ways. This is inevitable. For the Anglican Church cannot call itself Christian and in the same breath advocate homosexuality.
It is tragic too, because no Christian rejoices in having to settle disputes in such a manner. We have brethren who are misguided in their admiration of their own intellect and who imagine Christianity to be one huge philanthropic enterprise of accepting and accommodating sin in the name of loving your neighbour.
The spotlight will now shift to the church leaders who stood against homosexuality (including Kenya's Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi). They have been called to be shepherds of the flock. If the flock has ever needed that leadership, it is now.
This is not the time to get cold feet. It is not the time to procrastinate and it is certainly not the time to start bandying arguments about the pros and cons of homosexuality in the church. It is time to walk firmly at the head of the flock and follow the path set out by God.
Church leaders should be like a general in command of an army during war. His action determines not just his own fate but also that of the solders under his command.
Will Archbishop Nzimbi have the courage to do what is right or will he run to the cover of pseudo-intellectual debates and condemn his flock to destruction?
MARTIN NJAGA,
Kiambu.
The evil ordination of a homosexual as a bishop in the Anglican denomination reminds me that the church came about due to an act of adultery by the King of England.
That ordination is against the teachings of the Bible. Those behind the abomination suffer from a defective interpretation of theology based on the protestant idea of free will.
It is a crying pity that the concept of freedom of choice has been allowed to suppress religion.
In a country where Christianity is under severe assault from a judiciary that is essentially anti-Christ, Americans need to look more closely at the preamble to their constitution and decide to either do as they say or say as they do.
KARIUKI MUIRI,
Karatina.
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