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Tutu “sorry” but archbishop stays silent
BY Matthew Jenkin (Source Pink Paper) Archbishop Desmond Tutu has apologised to gay people around the world for the way they have been persecuted by the church. “I want to apologise to you and to all those who we in the church have persecuted,” Tutu told the BBC’s current affairs programme, LGBT Citizen Manchester.
“I’m sorry that we have been part of the persecution of a particular group. For me that is quite un-Christ-like and, for that reason, it is unacceptable,” the retired archbishop of Cape Town said.
The archbishop has been a vocal critic of the Church’s “obsession” with homosexuality and said: “Let me say for myself and anyone who might want to align themselves with me, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for the hurt, for the rejection, for the anguish that we have caused.”
Desmond Tutu was the first black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for campaigning against apartheid.
A spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to comment on whether Archbishop Rowan Williams would also apologise saying his stance on homosexuality was “clear”.