The
reverend daughter of former Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu has announced she
will give up her Anglican church license after marrying a woman.
Rev
Canon Mpho Tutu-Van Firth said that she had chosen to make a “dignified” exit
rather than be stripped of her right to practice, since the church does not recognize gay marriage.
“Because
the South African Anglican Church does not recognize our marriage, I can no
longer exercise my priestly ministry in South Africa,” she said. “The bishop of
the (Cape Town) diocese was instructed to revoke my license. I decided that I
would give it to him rather than have him take it.”
While
same-sex marriage was legalized in South Africa in 2006, the South African
Anglican law on marriage states: “Holy matrimony is the lifelong and exclusive
union between one man and one woman.”
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