Feel the Love

With the world convulsed by war, poverty, economic crisis, climate change and the banning of the Lord's Prayer before Star Wars, the Anglican church is showing its usual brand of moral leadership by attacking equal marriage rights. The US Episcopal church, which recognises and performs same-sex marriage, has been punished with a three-year suspension on the grounds that Scripture "upholds marriage as between a man and a woman in faithful, lifelong union", besides the occasional concubine or daughter. Liberals are angry that LGBT Christians received no mention in the official statement, and conservatives are angry because the ban is insufficiently vindictive. It is thought in some quarters that the homophobia of the African churches derives in part from resentment towards their former colonial masters in Europe and America, in accordance with the Saviour's instructions against loving one's enemy.