{"id":198275,"date":"2007-11-20T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/20\/desmond-tutu-gets-it-on-homophobic-bigotry\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:14:00","slug":"desmond-tutu-gets-it-on-homophobic-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/20\/desmond-tutu-gets-it-on-homophobic-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu Gets it on Homophobic Bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7100295.stm\">Nobel prize winning cleric is saying that with all the evil and hate in the world, the Church has no time to generate its own hate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">He said it should rather be focusing on global problems such as Aids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;Our world is facing problems &#8211; poverty, HIV and Aids &#8211; a devastating pandemic, and conflict,&#8221; said Archbishop Tutu, 76.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;In the face of all of that, our Church, especially the Anglican Church, at this time is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality.&#8221;<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, Nobel prize winning cleric is saying that with all the evil and hate in the world, the Church has no time to generate its own hate: He said it should rather be focusing on global problems such as Aids. &#8220;Our world is facing problems &#8211; poverty, HIV and Aids &#8211; a devastating pandemic, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1030,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-lgbtq","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}