Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bishop Desmond Tutu says anti-gay discrimination is just like what blacks faced in South Africa under apartheid
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/15/2007 09:27:00 PM ET


And he's right. So any bigots who have a problem with it, go talk to Tutu, and read up on your Coretta Scott King for that matter, as she too said the prejudice is the same.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has warned African churches against paying too much attention to the issue of homosexuality while ignoring real problems facing the continent.

"I am deeply, deeply distressed that in the face of the most horrendous problems -- we've got poverty, we've got conflict and war, we've got HIV/AIDS -- and what do we concentrate on? We concentrate on what you are doing in bed," Tutu told journalists in Nairobi during the World Social Forum.

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Tutu likened discrimination against homosexuals to that faced by black people under South Africa's racist apartheid policies.

"To penalise someone because of their sexual orientation is like what used to happen to us; to be penalised for something which we could do nothing [about] -- our ethnicity, our race," said Tutu. "I would find it quite unacceptable to condemn, persecute a minority that has already been persecuted."

God bless him.