Manchester Guardian commentary on the political asylum granted a gay Nigerian Christian as well as the state of the Nigerian Anglican Church. The claim is that the hierarchy is autocratic and membership numbers inflated.
"When Mac-Iyalla first surfaced three years ago, organising a local chapter of the Changing Attitude pro-gay Anglican group, the Nigerian hierarchy refused to believe he existed - their line was that there were no homosexuals in Nigeria and, anyway, such people were worse than beasts. Then, when he produced proof that he was not only a practising church-goer but also had formerly been assistant to a Nigerian bishop, who had since died, the press officer of the Nigerian archbishop Peter Akinola shamelessly claimed that Mac-Iyalla had embezzled church funds - an allegation for which he provided no proof."
"Surely it could not be, could it, that worldwide Anglicanism's voice is a bit like the Wizard of Oz's: booming, surrounded by an imposing edifice, but concealing a very small presence?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/29/religion.gayrights
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