Cape Town archbishop responds to Tutu gay wedding news
By George Conger, Anglican Ink:
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa will review the circumstances surrounding the same-sex marriage of the Rev. Canon Mpho Tutu and Prof. Marceline van Furth last week, but will do so according to the canons of the church — not pressure from the media — Archbishop Thabo Makoba told Anglican Ink today.
On 30 Dec 2015 the youngest daughter of former Cape Town archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Desmond Tutu, announced that she had married Prof. van Furth in a civil ceremony in the Netherlands. A second service has been scheduled for May in Cape Town. A priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Canon Tutu is not a priest of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, which does not permit its clergy to enter into same-sex marriages.
Asked what response the South African church had to the announcement, the Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba told Anglican Ink:
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