Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu,
daughter of the famed Archbishop Desmond Tutu, last week got married to
her female partner Professor Marceline van Furth.
Her lesbian marriage stands in
stark contrast to her parents, who recently renewed their wedding vows
on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary.
Mpho
Tutu exchanged vows in a small private ceremony, with her longtime
partner Professor Marceline Furth in Oegstgeest a town and municipality
in the province of South Holland in western Netherlands, with a planned
celebration of the marriage to be held in Cape Town in May.
This is Tutu’s second marriage, after her previous one to Joseph Burris, with whom she bore two daughters.
Mpho
Tutu is an ordained Episcopal priest, the executive director of the
Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, and also the executive director
and founder of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage. Her Dutch
partner Furth, is a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the
Vrije University in Amsterdam, and holds the Desmond Tutu Chair in
Medicine at the university.
statement announcing the news. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who led a
decades-long fight against racial discrimination in South Africa, says
the oppression of gay people around the world is the "new Apartheid."
Tutu says he will never worship a "homophobic God" and will rather go to hell. | |
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