Sudan: Who is Human?

What does Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul think about women and homosexuals? Are they both fully human? Apparently not.

Susan Russell was at the press conference where Archbishop Daniel held forth today, and she reports this:

In the press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the Primate of the Sudan (the Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Deng Bul) called for the resignation of the Bishop of New Hampshire, declaring in the statement released ahead of the press conference that he had come to the Lambeth Conference “to take the necessary steps to safeguard the precious unity of the Church.”

When asked about ministering to the gays and lesbians in his province, the archbishop declared that he did not think there were any homosexuals in the Sudan as “none had come forward.” And when queried about his position on the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate said he “believed in women priests and bishops because they were human” – leaving listeners to wonder if the inference was that homosexuals were not.

Yep. That's exactly the inference I received from reading several reports of Archbishop Daniel's 15 minutes of fame today: Women are human. Homosexuals are not.

I am speechless.