Rev. Rowland Jide Macaulay has founded House of Rainbow, a church that caters to Nigeria’s gay men and lesbians—a first for Africa’s most populous country, according to The Wall Street Journal. However, Macaulay’s father, Augustus Olakunle Macaulay, objects.
The elder Macaulay founded the nation’s Bible university that trained the younger Macaulay in theology; founded the evangelical ministry that ordained his son as a minister; and is president of Nigeria’s Association of Christian Theologians. Rev. Jide, as the younger Macaulay is called by his small but growing flock, said in a New Year’s day sermon that he is a ‘happy, holy homosexual. We are all God’s children, no matter what some people tell us.’