aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Tutu ashamed of Anglican homophobia

Blasts Anglican church for gay obsession:

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has slammed the church for being “obsessed” with homosexuality, in a BBC radio programme to be broadcast Tuesday.

The South African 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, 76, said he felt ashamed of his church for its attitude towards gays. [...]

“Our world is facing problems—poverty, HIV and AIDS—a devastating pandemic, and conflict,” Tutu said.

“God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another.

“In the face of all of that, our Church, especially the Anglican Church, at this time is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality.”

He said the Anglican church had appeared “extraordinarily homophobic” during the row over whether the openly gay priest Gene Robinson should be allowed to become the Bishop of New Hampshire.

Tutu said he was “saddened and “ashamed” of the church over the row.