Interview: Dmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis

Contents:

• 1ST U.S. GAY BISHOP REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY AND KDNS
• MPHO TUTU: CHOOSG BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND BEG GAY
• A TIMELE OF DMOND TUTU'S HISTORY OF FIGHTG FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• FREEDOM FIGHTER DMOND TUTU SAID HE’D RATHER BURN HELL THAN WORSHIP AN ANTI-GAY GOD
• TUTU GAY WEDDG CREAT NUNDM FOR ANGLIN CHURCH
• 1ST U.S. GAY BISHOP REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY, KDNS
• DMOND TUTU'S DGHTER BARRED OM FUNERAL ROLE OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• INTERVIEW: DMOND TUTU ON GAY RIGHTS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND POPE FRANCIS

1ST U.S. GAY BISHOP REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY AND KDNS

But the late South Ain archbishop’s mpaign agast homophobia had limed impact the rt of Ai, where same-sex marriage remas illegal and most untri crimalize gay wh his own nomatn, the Anglin Communn, there has been no ntent-wi embrace of LGBTQ rights. “As long as the relig lears are unwillg to terpret the Bible om the lens of love for all, as Tutu did, homophobia and transphobia will rema a part of our liv.

“Tutu should jt step down bee he supports gays, somethg that is evil, ” Mugabe told a polil same year, Tutu uttered one of his most memorable ments about LGBTQ cln. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic, ” he said.

MPHO TUTU: CHOOSG BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND BEG GAY

“I would refe to go to a homophobic heaven.

“I love him to bs, ” Jay South Ai’s borrs, a few recent velopments have enuraged LGBTQ-rights Botswana, the Court of Appeal last month unanimoly upheld a 2019 lg that crimalized nsensual gay sex. Gay World pageant, Louw Breytenbach of South Ai, was the para’s grand marshal.

A TIMELE OF DMOND TUTU'S HISTORY OF FIGHTG FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

A warrr for gay rights.

The perpetrators ma vios of the prolonged attack that circulated on social the ernment level, Senegal and Ghana are unr scty om LGBTQ-rights Senegal, 13 opposn legislators recently troduced a bill to toughen penalti agast homosexualy, doublg the maximum sentence to 10 years. Parliament members om the erng aln say such a measure is unnecsary sce homosexual acts are already Ghana, parliament members ntue to work on a bill that has been nmned by LGBTQ-rights supporters the Wt Ain untry and abroad.

FREEDOM FIGHTER DMOND TUTU SAID HE’D RATHER BURN HELL THAN WORSHIP AN ANTI-GAY GOD

San Rsell, who is on the staff of All Sats Epispal Church Pasana, relled a vis by Tutu to the church 2005, shortly after the Epispal Church’s ordatn of s first out gay bishop, Gene Robson of New Hampshire, touched off a ntroversy that still roils the Anglin relled that Tutu talked about how all people are embraced by God, regardls of genr or race — and when he also clud gays and lbians that list, “there really was an dible gasp the room of amazement and relief and light. Epispal Church’s first openly gay bishop, said Sunday he has been tryg to live up to those words ever sce. “Now, wh gay marriage, ’s hard to remember how ntroversial this was, and for him to stand wh me at the very time I was beg exclud...

TUTU GAY WEDDG CREAT NUNDM FOR ANGLIN CHURCH

In more recent years Tutu has bee known for his strong advocy on issu of sexualy, particular the rights of lbian and gay people. would rather go to hell than to a homophobic heaven. Tutu is by far the most high-profile Ain, if not global, relig lear to support lbian and gay rights.

1ST U.S. GAY BISHOP REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY, KDNS

In fact his mment to fendg gay and lbian rights isn’t a recent velopment; dat as far back as the 1970s. If the church, after the victory over apartheid, is lookg for a worthy moral csa, then this is : the fight agast homophobia and heterosexism.

More than a later, Tutu ed very siar words to nounce homophobia and heterosexism.

He wrote that was “the ultimate blasphemy” to make lbian and gay people doubt whether they tly were children of God and whether their sexualy was part of how they were created by God.

DMOND TUTU'S DGHTER BARRED OM FUNERAL ROLE OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Tutu’s equatn of black civil rights and lbian and gay rights is part of a broar South Ain narrative and dat back to the days of the apartheid stggle. Openly gay anti-apartheid activists, such as Simon Nkoli, had actively participated the liberatn movement, and had succsfully tertwed the stggl agast racism and homophobia. Arguably, the legal provisns did not tomatilly translate to a change of social attus towards lbian and gay people at a grassroots level.

Homophobia remas wispread South Ain society today.

INTERVIEW: DMOND TUTU ON GAY RIGHTS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND POPE FRANCIS

Tutu’s own church, the Anglin Church of Southern Ai, ntu to stggle wh gay issu. The qutn of same-sex relatnships and the stat of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people ntu to be ntroversial across the world. " Same-sex marriag are not regnised and when to gay clerics, the church is very clear - they mt rema source, Sumaya HishamImage ptn, Archbishop Dmond Tutu (left) joed the celebratns wh his wife at the party markg the marriage of their dghter, MphoMs Tutu van Furth feared that her marriage would mean losg her licence to practice as a prit.

Dpe this, his views on homophobia have always been very clear. In July 2013, while speakg at a UN-backed mpaign to promote gay rights, he said: "I would refe to go to a homophobic heaven.

I mean I would much rather go to the other place, " he said, equatg the mpaign agast homophobia to that waged South Ai agast racism. Image source, Sumaya HishamImage ptn, In 2013, Archbishop Tutu said he would not want to go to a homophobic heavenMs Tutu van Furth would like her marriage to help progrs what she lls the "very important nversatn'" that needs to be had the church regardg same-sex marriage. "Not only do we have gay, lbian, transgenr, bisexual people of every scriptn stg our pews, to be perfectly hont we have all of those people standg our pulps too.