By Peter J. Smith
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Primate of Uganda warned Christians against practising homosexual acts saying that they violate God’s purpose for marriage and attract His wrath. The New Vision, a Ugandan online journal, reports Rt. Rev. Henry Luke Orombi made his comments while preaching during his one-week tour of the Bukedi Diocese.
“People have abandoned relationships with the opposite sex. One wonders whether God was stupid to create Eve for Adam. Why isn’t Eve beautiful any more? Eve is going out with Eve and Adam with Adam,” Archbishop Orombi lamented.
Archbishop Orombi, also the Bishop of Kampala, decried the rise of homosexual activity in Uganda to the point where homosexuals have begun to demand special constitutional rights. Orombi cautioned audiences that just as God punished the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah – destroyed by fire and brimstone for the sexual immorality of its inhabitants – he would not let this sin go unpunished either.
Archbishop Orombi has also expressed concern over rise of sexual immorality among married couples, especially in light of the recent legalisation of extra-marital affairs in Uganda.
Earlier last month the Constitutional Court in Kampala scrapped country’s law on adultery, which critics said inequitably penalised women for an affair with a fine or a year in jail, but failed to punish men who cheat on their wives. The attorney general, however, pleaded the court to amend the law instead, warning that doing away with it would encourage promiscuity and immorality.
Archbishop Orombi has been leader of the Church in Uganda since 2004, and was persecuted with other Christians under the regime of Uganda tyrant Idi Amin. Amin murdered Orombi’s mentor Archbishop Janini Luwam back in 1977.
Orombi has pointed out before that homosexuality is “nothing new” in Uganda and the first Anglican Christian martyrs in Uganda were burned to death for spurning the homosexual advances of the king. Orombi also has no tolerance for polygamy (having come from a polygamous family), a charge leveled at African bishops by the pro-homosexual US Episcopal Church.
Both Orombi and Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola have criticised the US Episcopal Church’s embrace of the homosexual agenda, esp. the consecration of openly homosexual bishops, which threatens to permanently split the Anglican Communion. Several dozen U.S. churches have asked for “alternative oversight” from Orombi.