A British bishop has become the first
in the Church of England — the
mother church of the worldwide
Anglican faith — to announce he is
homosexual, in an interview
published Saturday.
Nicholas Chamberlain, the Bishop of
Grantham in central England, told the
Guardian newspaper he was in a long-
term relationship with his male
partner, after a Sunday paper
reportedly said it was about to publish
a story on his private life.
“It was not my decision to make a big
thing about coming out,” he said,
adding that he adhered to church
guidelines which stipulate that gay
clergy must be celibate.
“People know I’m gay, but it’s not the
first thing I’d say to anyone. Sexuality
is part of who I am, but it’s my
ministry that I want to focus on.”
The church knew he was gay when he
became a bishop last year, he
revealed.
“I was myself. Those making the
appointment knew about my sexual
identity.”
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin
Welby, leader of the world’s Anglican
faith, said Chamberlain’s sexuality was
“completely irrelevant”.
“His appointment as Bishop of
Grantham was made on the basis of
his skills and calling to serve the
church in the diocese of Lincoln,” he
said.
“He lives within the bishops’
guidelines and his sexuality is
completely irrelevant to his office.”
Chamberlain said of his relationship:
“It is faithful, loving, we are like-
minded, we enjoy each other’s
company and we share each other’s
life.”
A Church of England spokesman said
it would have been “unjust” not to
appoint him based due to his
sexuality.
The Church of England dropped its
opposition to gay clergymen in civil
partnerships becoming bishops in
2013, although many of the Anglican
faith worldwide — who number 80
million — were opposed.
The Anglican Church of Uganda in
2014 said it may consider breaking
away from their mother church in
England if it put Uganda under
pressure over its tough anti-
homosexuality law.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/church-england-welcomes-first-openly-gay-bishop/

Which kind yeye "calling to serve?" Na satanic call be dat.

HajimeSaito:
Which kind yeye "calling to serve?" Na satanic call be dat.

Surprising how Africans can still judge, forgetting the fact that england gave most of Africa Christianity in the first place.

Thank God that I am a Muslim.

Lennycool:

Surprising how Africans can still judge, forgetting the fact that england gave most of Africa Christianity in the first place.

Christianity is of God. The British did not give anything because it is impossible to give something that doesn't belong to you.
This S.t.u.pidity that Christianity belongs to West just doesn't make any sense.

simpleseyi:
Thank God that I am a Muslim.

You mean that religion which kills harmless old women like in Kano and Abuja?

this is progress for civil rights everywhere and hopefully it will reach Africa. where the masses are misguided by religion and prejudice.

Lennycool:
this is progress for civil rights everywhere and hopefully it will reach Africa. where the masses are misguided by religion and prejudice.

Nahh; forget it. Africa is still with the grand ideal of Pentecoastalism; swinging the holy sword of liberation over demons and ancestral problems; over ancient curses that somehow stops you from progressing.



Indeed; Africa is pentecoastalism personified

Agents of Satan posing as Bishop.
Mschew!!

Lennycool:
this is progress for civil rights everywhere and hopefully it will reach Africa. where the masses are misguided by religion and prejudice.

oh u mean civil rights for lawlessness, the religion of the antichrist.

I invite u to The Lord's Chosen @Ijesha Bustop tomorrow. Come and behold the miracles of God, and obtain genuine salvation.

mrZENographer:


oh u mean civil rights for lawlessness, the religion of the antichrist.

I invite u to The Lord's Chosen @Ijesha Bustop tomorrow. Come and behold the miracles of God, and obtain genuine salvation.

LMAO. This is the second funniest thing I've read a day. There is no God and no Miracles, you are being misled.

Lennycool:

LMAO. This is the second funniest thing I've read a day. There is no God and no Miracles, you are being misled.

No. it you, who have been imprisoned in a douchbag by the illuminatis, and powerful men. It is even you that has been misled. What a man has nor seen or heard, he can never know.

I have seen miracles and on occasions myself brought sick people to be healed and they were. But you, you are a blind monkey looking for banana (things that suit you). I should be the one directing you nor viceversa. I have seen, you haven't seen.

I don't know how but you are being fooled. There are no miracles only luck and placebo effects.

Lennycool:

Surprising how Africans can still judge, forgetting the fact that england gave most of Africa Christianity in the first place.

I don't understand. Who judged him? And did you just say England gave us Christianity? Jesus is English i guess?

Anas09:

I don't understand. Who judged him? And did you just say England gave us Christianity? Jesus is English i guess?

You really should read more. Most of the early missionaries in Nigeria were from england. After Nigeria became colonized, it helped spread Christianity throughout Nigeria. They're judging england for Appointing a gay bishop, like there form of Christianity is on a higher ground.

Lennycool:

You really should read more. Most of the early missionaries in Nigeria were from england. After Nigeria became colonized, it helped spread Christianity throughout Nigeria. They're judging england for Appointing a gay bishop, like there form of Christianity is on a higher ground.

I think you should read more. Spreading Christianity is not the same thing as giving us Christianity.
Everyone who recieves christianity is mandated to spread it, it doesnt matter who does it. Just spread it.

They Did not appoint him as a gay, they ordained a man whom they didnt know was gay. Get your facts right. The man was gay but hid it for long until now.

When men slept the enemy went into the field and planted Tares. And how do we know them? BY THEIR FRUITS.

hmm