Jamie Tabberer, writing at PinkPaper, reveals that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has finally spoken out against Uganda’s exterminate-the-gays bill.
In his interview with Saturday’s edition of the Daily Telegraph, 59-year-old Rowan Williams claimed: “Overall, the proposed legislation is of shocking severity and I can’t see how it could be supported by any Anglican who is committed to what the Communion has said in recent decades.
“Apart from invoking the death penalty, it makes pastoral care impossible – it seeks to turn pastors into informers,” he continued.
Much has been made of the archbishop’s silence on the anti-gay Ugandan bill, while Williams, who was dubbed “the invertebrate archbishop” by Britain’s National Secular Society for his silence on the subject, immediately spoke up criticizing the Episcopal Church in America for electing openly lesbian Mary Glasspool as a Los Angeles bishop.
Jim Burroway, writing at Box Turtle Bulletin, summed up Williams’ belated response with the headline: Archbishop of Canterbury Mumbles Something About Uganda.
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