The late Archbishop Dmond Tutu is revered for opposg apartheid, but his battle agast jtice clud an unwaverg fence of gay rights. LGBTQ people are thankg, and mourng, the man who…
Contents:
- 1ST U.S. GAY BISHOP REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY AND KDNS
- A TIMELE OF DMOND TUTU'S HISTORY OF FIGHTG FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
- INTERVIEW: DMOND TUTU ON GAY RIGHTS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND POPE FRANCIS
- DMOND TUTU FENDS GAY RIGHTS
- DMOND TUTU NMNS UGANDA'S PROPOSED NEW ANTI-GAY LAW
1ST U.S. GAY BISHOP REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY AND KDNS
Dmond Tutu is by far the most high-profile Ain, if not global, relig lear to support lbian and gay rights, and he has done so sce the 1970s. * desmond tutu gay rights *
In more recent years Tutu has bee known for his strong advocy on issu of sexualy, particular the rights of lbian and gay people.
A TIMELE OF DMOND TUTU'S HISTORY OF FIGHTG FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
Most untri crimalize gay sex, and South Ai is the only untry on that ntent that has legalized same-sex marriage * desmond tutu gay rights *
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. 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.
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.
INTERVIEW: DMOND TUTU ON GAY RIGHTS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND POPE FRANCIS
Rev. Gene Robson, who 2003 beme the U.S. Epispal Church’s first openly gay bishop, remembers how Dmond Tutu me to his fense. * desmond tutu gay rights *
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.
DMOND TUTU FENDS GAY RIGHTS
“Tutu should jt step down bee he supports gays...“ Robert Mugabe * desmond tutu gay rights *
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.
DMOND TUTU NMNS UGANDA'S PROPOSED NEW ANTI-GAY LAW
Archbishop Dmond Tutu fends gay rights and has nmned Uganda's proposed law agast homosexualy sayg there is no... * desmond tutu gay rights *
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.
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.
* desmond tutu gay rights *
“I would not worship a God who is homophobic, ” he said.
“I would refe to go to a homophobic heaven.