Is LGBT ideology a new kind of colonialism?

Christian leaders in the UK have spoken of making amends for Britain’s colonial past, yet many Africans say that when it comes to sexuality, the West is still imposing its beliefs on them today. Heather Tomlinson explores the widening international chasm on sexual ethics

Most Rev Justin Welby has done an awful lot of apologising while Archbishop of Canterbury. He has prostrated himself in front of a memorial of the Amritsar massacre in India and apologised for the Church of England’s “grevious sins” against the Indigenous peoples of Canada. Many agree with his fervour: a recent report from the Oversight Group of the Church Commissioners recommended that the Church of England should also apologise for “seeking to destroy diverse African traditional religious belief systems”.