Peter Akinola is not exactly a household name, but he could well be the problem pastor of neo-conservatism. He is certainly less well known in the U.S. than John ("McCain threw me under the bus") Hagee, but he is every bit as consequential.
He is he spiritual leader of thousands of Americans, including many Washington insiders who attend schismatic Episcopal churches that have placed themselves under his authority in recent years. He is Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, a cruel and ostentatiously anti-gay cleric and a driving force in the widening schism in the worldwide Anglican communion, who makes James Dobson seem liberal and Hagee a relative man of peace.
He is also the embodiment of many people's worst fears about the theocratic, authoritarian nature of the Religious Right. (See also here, for a recent example.)
That Americans of any political or religious orientation would choose this man as their spiritual leader is disturbing enough. But there is a still darker side of Akinola, one linked to an infamous massacre.
But before we get to that, a few words about some of the Akinola Anglicans.
Akinola Anglicans are represented in the United states in part by, and are closely aligned with the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a neoconservative strategy and action center that has waged a war of attrition against mainline Protestantism for a generation, primarily under the leadership of conservative Catholics and evangelicals; and is bankrolled by the likes of Richard Mellon Scaife and Howard Ahmanson, whose neoconservative and theocratic agendas are respectively opposed by the historic communions of mainline Protestantism. (Scaife and Ahmanson are also principal bankrollers of the Discovery Institute, the religious right think tank devoted to the promotion of the teaching of "intelligent design" in the public schools.)
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/28/214752/286