Ugandan anti-LGBTQ law deepens Anglican Church rift on gay rights | Religion News

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The latest split in the Anglican Church comes after recent comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Uganda’s new law.

The chair of a conservative group of Anglican church leaders on Wednesday accused the church’s global head of perpetuating colonialism with his criticism of one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, introduced by Uganda last month.

The new legislation imposes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts and a 20-year prison sentence for “promoting” homosexuality.

“It seems the history of colonisation and patronising behaviour of some provinces in the…



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