Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Desmond Tutu’s youngest daughter Mpho has announced that she married a female physician from the Netherlands last December at an Episcopal church in Virginia. The Church in South Africa doesn’t allow its clergy to enter into same-sex marriages, so she voluntarily turned in her license to serve as a priest there, but she is also licensed in the USA, where she attended seminary. She is now the director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and frequently acts as heir apparent with her father on social media. A few years ago he famously apologized to LGBTs for the Church’s role in promoting anti-Gay violence and discrimination. South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution is unique among nations in prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and the Anglican Church there is expected to revisit its prohibition on LGBT married clergy later this year. (The Washington Post)

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