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| REV. MPHO TUTU & PARTNER PROF. MARCELINE FURTH |
The
daughter of Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the retired Anglican
Archbishop of Capetown, the Reverend Mpho Tutu has married her long time lesbian
partner, Prof. Marceline Furth in a quiet civil ceremony which took place in
the Netherlands on Wednesday 30TH December, 2015.
Tutu, who has two children from her last marriage
to Joseph Burris is an ordained Episcopal priest, she is also the executive
director and founder of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage.
Her partner, Furth also a South African is into
HIV/AIDS activism, she also leads campaigns to battle other ills such as poverty,
racism, sexism, homophobia and trans phobia. She lectures on Pediatric
Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam.
The
two partners have previously been married. The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy
Foundation in a statement said the couple is arranging a more elaborate wedding
ceremony in Capetown, South Africa in May 2016.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was at the ceremony which
is not surprising being that he has always shown his support openly for same
sex marriage stating that any adverse action against the gay people tantamount
to a new version of apartheid. It would be recalled that he had in the past
expressed his believe that God was not homophobic and if He were he would never
worship him nor go to a homophobic heaven.
He had gone ahead to express his passion for the
rights of the gay community stating that his feelings for the cause was as deep
as that which made him one of the leading figures in the fight against
apartheid, one that he was prepared to lose his life for.
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