on Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 9.59 am by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Anglican Communion
This Day a Nigerian newspaper has ‘It’s No Sin Being Gay’, an interview with Davis Mac-Iyalla and Out from the Shadows, a further report on him. Both are by journalist Laurence Ani.
This was a brave move by both players and the paper that published it. I wish them all the best. It is also timely, in an earlier thread this week someone commented that they had never heard that people had been turned off church because if its attitude to homosexuality. I spent the night contemplating that in Nigeria, you would never hear these concerns as it would be likely to lead to a 5 year jail sentence. So apparently, there would never be a problem of GLBTs existing in Nigeria. I also remember that this fracas strated because of a… Read more »
This was a brave move by both players and the paper that published it. I wish them all the best. It is also timely, in an earlier thread this week someone commented that they had never heard that people had been turned off church because if its attitude to homosexuality. I spent the night contemplating that in Nigeria, you would never hear these concerns as it would be likely to lead to a 5 year jail sentence. So apparently, there would never be a problem of GLBTs existing in Nigeria. I also remember that this fracas strated because of a… Read more »
Davis Mac-Iyalla is clear and very brave.