Desmond Tutu.In the ongoing struggle for religious equality for gays, it helps to have Desmond Tutu Noun 1. Desmond Tutu - South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931) Tutu on your side. Biographer John Allen's new book about the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. winner and retired archbishop, Rabble-rouser for Peace (Free Press/Simon and Schuster), reveals that in 1998 Tutu sent a letter to the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion saying he was "ashamed to be Anglican" after the church rejected the ordination of openly gay clergy. Allen, Tutu's former press secretary, also reports that Tutu was dismayed by the controversy surrounding the election of out gay man V. Gene Robinson as Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). in 2003. Tutu found it "outrageous that church leaders should be obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with issues of sexuality in the face of the challenges of AIDS and global poverty," Allen writes. |
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