Backlash against gay bishop begins

ANGLICANS did not have to wait long for the backlash following the consecration of a gay bishop by the allied Episcopal church in the US.

The Anglican Church of Nigeria with 17 million members, the second largest in the world yesterday refused to recognise Sunday's consecration of openly gay Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.

The Ugandan Anglican church cut all ties with the New Hampshire diocese and in Australia, the Anglican archbishop of Sydney branded Robinson a "bishop of disunity".