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God is weeping, says Archbishop
desmond tutu
God is weeping over the Churchââ¬â¢s obsession with gay issues, Desmond Tutu has claimed
"I must imagine that God is weeping, and the world quite rightly should dismiss the Church in those cases as being totally irrelevant"
The South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace laureate was addressing a conference in London organised by the Christian charity Tearfund, when he accused the Church of being obsessed about homosexuality and allowing it to come before real action on world poverty.
He said he sometimes felt ashamed of his fellow Anglicans as they focused on homosexuality while 30,000 people died every day from poverty.
We seem to be engaging in this kind of, almost, past-time [while] there's poverty, hunger, disease, corruption.
"I must imagine that God is weeping, and the world quite rightly should dismiss the Church in those cases as being totally irrelevant."
He also accused some of his fellow Anglicans of going against the teachings of Jesus in their treatment of gay people and said that they were “persecuting the already persecuted.”
