Focus on Africa's Problems, Not Gay Clergy, Tutu urges Anglicans - Reuters

Focus on Africa's Problems, Not Gay Clergy, Tutu urges Anglicans
Reuters
Jan 20, 2007

Nairobi - "Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa urged the African Anglican Church yesterday to concentrate on the continent's grim problems rather than on gay clergy, and said persecuting gays was akin to racism. The debate over the role of homosexuals in the Church threatens to split the world's 77 million anglicans with African Anglican bishops refusing to sit at the same table as Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who heads the U.S. Episcopal Church and supports gay clergy, at a meeting in Tanzania next month. "I am deeply disturbed that in the face of some of the most horrendous problems facing Africa, we concentrate on 'what do I do in bed with whom,' " Archbishop Tutu, pictured said. "For one to penalize someone for their sexual orientation is the same as penalizing someone for something they can do nothing about, like ethnicity or race...The God I worship would not consider Reuters"

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allowed to marry .. that might bring marriage back into the majority.. !!