Monday, September 19, 2005
"A generation of bastards"
With logic that can only be described as bizarre, the Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter Akinola has blamed the supposed generational malaise of illegitimacy on lesbianism, divorce and homosexuality. It seems to me that people who have divorced have usually had their children, or at least they are the marrying types, and thus can rarely be blamed for illegitimate children. The biblical argument with homosexuality lies in the condemnation of particular sexual acts, and logic commands that those don't produce children either. I quote Archbishop Akinola from this week's Church Times: "Homosexuality and lesbianism, like divorce, breed a society of single parents which gives rise to a generation of bastards."
Of course, reason and logic are abandoned in arguments designed for emotive effect. Vituperative statements such as these are designed to shore up a bankrupt value system fraught with contradictions and characterised by self-satisfied conceit. The good Archbishop has abandoned Christian humility and love of neighbour in favour of invective. The Most Revd Peter Akinola, prophesies "much terror to the peace and stability of the society" from these modern sexual ills, but he is no Cassandra and is much more like Prokofiev's Peter. Why give such ill service to the church?
Let the title speak for the image. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
(PS: The caption competition was won by Canon Leni)
