Desmond Tutu: LGBT People Are a Part of the African Family

[Emit]

In a column appearing in this morning’s Washington Post, Nobel laureate and retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu lays out the moral wrongs of what is happening to LGBT people across Africa, as only he can:

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. We knew this was wrong. Thankfully, the world supported us in our struggle for freedom and dignity.

~snip~

…No one chooses to be gay. Sexual orientation, like skin color, is another feature of our diversity as a human family. Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? Does God love his dark- or his light-skinned children less? The brave more than the timid? And does any of us know the mind of God so well that we can decide for him who is included, and who is excluded, from the circle of his love?

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/03/12/21019

[wryter2000]

1. K&R

Awesome. :bounce:

[tabatha]

2. He is one of the greatest people to walk this planet.

[Laughing Mirror]

3. The voice of sanity

Amen and thank you Brother Desmond, once again, for that voice.

[Overseas]

4. K&R . //nt

[Deep13]

5. Good to hear this from such a prominent and well-regarded African.

:yourock:

[Withywindle]

6. K&R

And does any of us know the mind of God so well that we can decide for him who is included, and who is excluded, from the circle of his love?


That needed to be repeated.