Desmond Tutu, the Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his efforts to end apartheid. Since then he's become a fierce LGBT ally. Writing an op-ed at the Washington Post, the archbishop slams the extreme state-sponsored
terror
campaign against gays in lesbians that has swept across Africa in the name of religion: "Show me where Christ said 'Love thy fellow man, except for the gay
ones.'"
Our lesbian and gay brothers and sisters across Africa are living in fear. And they are living in hiding—away from care, away from the protection the state should offer to every citizen and away from health
care in the AIDS era, when all of us, especially Africans, need access
to essential HIV services. That this pandering to intolerance is being
done by politicians looking for scapegoats for their failures is not
surprising. But it is a great wrong. An even larger offense is that it
is being done in the name of God. Show me where Christ said "Love thy
fellow man, except for the gay ones." Gay people, too, are made in my
God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.
"But they are sinners," I can hear the preachers and politicians say.
"They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished." My
scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many
gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. 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?
"Does God love his dark-skinned children less?"That's an excellent question posed by the Archbishop that needs to be repeated not only across Africa but in America as well.
[Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/ AIDS (BONELA)] Director Uyapo Ndadi confirmed they would challenge Section 164 of the Penal Code that criminalizes same sex relationships. It is understood that gays want the provision to be declared unconstitutional. "Yes I can confirm that plans are underway and drafting is almost complete. We are ready to file the papers before Court," said Ndadi.
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