For someone who is in love and recently married, a wedge of “very odd pain” is lodged in Mpho Tutu van Furth’s heart.
Posted on 06/09/2016 6:46:44 AM PDT by Cronos
For someone who is in love and recently married, a wedge of “very odd pain” is lodged in Mpho Tutu van Furth’s heart.
It is caused by the South African Anglican church’s refusal to allow the daughter of one of the world’s best known Christian leaders to continue to work as a priest after she married the person with whom she has pledged to share the rest of her life: a woman.
“It was hard for me to give up my [priest’s] licence, it felt incredibly sad,” Tutu van Furth – whose father, Desmond Tutu, won the Nobel peace prize in 1984 for the struggle against apartheid – told the Guardian.
“My father campaigned for women’s ordination, and so every time I stand at the altar I know that this is part of his legacy. And it is painful, a very odd pain, to step down, to step back from exercising my priestly ministry.”
The civil wedding of Mpho Tutu and Marceline van Furth took place in the Netherlands in December and was followed by a celebration at a vineyard in Franschhoek, near Cape Town, last month.
One bride was a black South African priest, the other a white Dutch atheist academic.
...Desmond Tutu gave a “father’s blessing”,
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
It is obvious she does not worship the God of the Bible.
Wow.
Oh well. At least America's far left Blacks now have a mystical motherland in the otherwise redneck homeland to be proud of.
How touching !
They were both married before and have children from their previous marriages. Tutu two daughters and the other woman one daughter.
ABOMINATION, nothing more need be said.
Now this is a “natural” looking couple. /sarc.
Age, race, style, and oh yeah, SEX. (NOT gender, SEX)
ABOMINATION!! - No amount of rag on her head is going to
cover up the truth!
“You have just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.”
Except that we’ve been there for quite a while now.
She’s not a priest. A woman can’t be a priest any more than she can marry another woman. And yes, the two problems are related.
She need intensive psychiatric therapy...and probably, intensive medication.
No. It is caused by the South African Anglican church’s refusal to allow a woman who openly rejects Christian scripture to continue to work as a priest after she rejected God's word and pledged to spend the rest of her life living in opposition to the Bible.
The American people always seemed to have a liking for all things Tutu. So I imagine the handkerchiefs will be used after reading about this “injustice”.
True, even Rod Serling (was he a popular liberal too?) couldn’t have thought up the sodid reality in ‘’The New York Times’’ daily now.
At least the Africans were stronger on their Biblical stance than the American Episcopalians and British Anglicans who made homosexual “married” people in bishops.
This problem isn’t medical.
I’m under the impression that Serling wasn’t terribly political, although he grew up in the era of FDR.
He did fight as a paratrooper in the Philippines in WW II, so he was plenty tough, whatever his party affiliation.
One bride was a black South African priest, the other a white Dutch atheist academic.A female priest marrying another woman, who's an atheist -- not unlike a vegan who keeps kosher yet enjoys the occasional cheeseburger.
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