Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

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7. This has played out in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion

It is a long and involved story, but the Anglican Communion is a voluntary association of national churches, based on geographical location. Everyone minding their own business, and doing their own thing.

Until 2003, when the Diocese of New Hampshire elevated the Rev. Gene Robinson to the post of bishop. Robinson is gay.

The central African members of the Communion, headed by Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Nigeria, went nuts, tried to get the Archbishop of Canterbury to come down on the Americans, started a whole movement that included ordaining dissident conservative Americans as bishops or as churches under the wing of African churches. Because of the inaction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the whole situation festered forever, and Nigerien and Ugandan and Rwandan Anglican churches have all set up associations. They were crossing boundaries of national churches, which is illegal but unenforced within the communion, with conservative American churches who essentially tried to leave and take Episcopal-owned property and governing structures with them. Many of these moves have been taken to court, and the conservatives have lost almost all the court cases.

But it goes on and on and on.