I LOVE THIS GUY. I’M GOING WHERE HE’S GOING!
I work for inclusion because “It’s God catching me by the neck… I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place. I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level."
~ Archbishop Tutu at the launch of the Free and Equal campaign in Cape Town. Archbishop Tutu won the Nobel peace prize in 1984 for campaigning against white minority rule in South Africa.
“Ms Pillay said gay and lesbian people in South Africa had some of the best legal safeguards since apartheid ended in 1994, but they still faced brutal attacks. Last month, a lesbian was found dead, having been sexually assaulted with a toilet brush. "People are literally paying for their love with their lives," she said, AFP news agency reports. The UN would push for gay rights to be recognized in countries where they are illegal, Ms Pillay said. "I constantly hear governments tell me, 'but this is our culture, our tradition and we can't change it'... So we have lots of work to do," she added. Same-sex relationships are illegal in more than a third of countries around the world and punishable by death in five, Ms Pillay said. In Africa, homosexual acts are still a crime in 38 countries, according to the rights group Amnesty International.”
Photos ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
~ with Dalai Lama laughing.
~ Lesbian Daughter of Desmond Tutu Marries Partner in Netherlands.
~ Lesbian Daughter of Desmond Tutu Marries Partner in Netherlands.
"Being the daughter of a domestic worker, Mrs. Tutu has always been concerned about the social rights and conditions of domestic workers, being one of the largest professional groups in South Africa. Using her experience as a teacher, she became a true advocate of equal opportunities and social rights for the domestic workforce and one of the founders of the South African Domestic Workers Association (SADWA). One of their projects is the training of domestic workers to improve their skills and thus improve their chances of a better career and salary. Other results obtained by SADWA are the installment of a minimum wage of 600 rand and a 3 week work leave each year."
ReplyDelete"One of Tutu's four children, the Reverend Mpho A. Tutu, joined him onstage. Warm and wise, she is definitely her father's daughter.
ReplyDeleteResplendent in a brightly patterned turban and tunic, orange slacks and strappy high heels, she explained, "I didn't want young people in the congregation to think if you want to be a priest you have to look [a certain way], that there's no place for me in the ordained ministry." So she dresses in all the colors of the rainbow and then some.
Mpho Tutu also has her dad's sly sense of humor. The moderator asked her how she felt being raised by such great parents. With the crack timing of a stand-up comic, she shot back: "I have to agree with you. My mom is one of the most extraordinary women on the planet."