What has become increasingly apparent in the two and a half decades since Lambeth 1998 in the Church of England and other parts of the Anglican Communion is that they have become unhealthy ecclesial bodies. They are unhealthy because their teaching and practice results in prejudice against and the abuse of women and LGBTQIA+ people. The support given to anti-gay bills by some Anglican churches and the homophobia and prejudice manifest in other Provinces demonstrates how dominant, abusive, prejudiced and unhealthy many parts of the Anglican Communion are. Only when Anglican churches recognise this will they move a step closer to manifesting Jesus’ understanding of the kingdom.
The Ghana “Anti-Gay” Bill hearings continue with a presentation from IDNOWA
Davis Mac-Iyalla, now the Executive Director of the Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), spoke against the passage of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 on Thursday 17th February 2022 at the third public hearing of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on the bill. The bill, effectively an anti-LGBTQIA+ bill, will if passed in its current state, criminalise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Agender people and any person or group supporting them, including family members, bishops, priests and pastors.