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Desmond Tutu
Advocate, The, Nov 7, 2006
In the ongoing struggle for religious equality for gays, it helps to have Desmond Tutu on your side. Biographer John Allen's new book about the Nobel Peace Prize 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.
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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 in 2003. Tutu found it "outrageous that church leaders should be obsessed with issues of sexuality in the face of the challenges of AIDS and global poverty," Allen writes.
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