Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Agitate, aggravate and alienate that's your cry, then put your head between your legs and kiss your parishioners goodbye.
I have been engaged in conversations on this topic. I was accused of not having love for gays when I opposed gay rights, and thus of being unChristian. I said something along the lines of, "Is it love to allow or encourage someone to defy God's will and adopt behaviors that lead to both material and spiritual destruction? If my son wanted to stick his hand in the fire, would it be love to allow him to do so? Love is to help someone see the light; to do right, to turn away from wrongful behavior. Love is helping someone change their ways and reform."
I was told, "I don't want or need that kind of love."
O.K. Apprently they don't think that someone trying to convince them that what they're doing is wrong can come from love; they think that not accepting what they do as right comes only from hate. I seem to recall in the Bible more than one instance of when someone, or an entire people, turned away from God's love. That usually didn't turn out well.
Perhaps those two personify the entire rift in the Church.
Sad that Chane is also a bishop. Sad that he comes out of a country that professes to be 85% Christian.
Strange that the example of the true path of Christ comes out of Africa, from 1/2 Christian, 1/2 Muslim Nigeria.