Opinion / Columnist
Tutu, God, satan and political bravado
21 Sep 2016 at 12:22hrs | Views
On the 29th of July 2013, the Agence France-Presse reported that the renowned Bishop and retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu had apparently joined the ranks of gay rights supporters in the church.
"On Friday, he said he would rather go to hell before going to a heaven that condemned homosexuality as a sin."
For thousands of years, Gods word in the bible has been read to teach that no Homosexuals will go to heaven. Desmond Tutu has his own invention of a heaven he would rather go to.
"I would not worship a God who is homophobic, and that is how deep I feel about this," Tutu said at a United Nations' gay rights campaign function in Cape Town, South Africa. "I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. 'No,' I would say. 'Sorry. I mean, I would much rather go to the other place.'"
The bible only gives two options, God's heaven or Satan's hell. Could the Bishop have made his final decision after preaching God and politics for so many years?
Tutu likened gay rights to the civil rights battle for blacks and apartheid.
"I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid," Tutu said, as reported by Agence France-Presse. "For me, it is at the same level."
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Venus Mlalazi <venusmlalazi@yahoo.co.uk>
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