South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter married a woman, and forced out of the South African clergy

South Africa's first black archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond tutu's daughter Tutu now Tutu Van Furth got married recently. Yes she got married, but not what you did expect from the daughter of a bishop as she got married to another woman like herself.

Tutu a black South African, a devout priest and, as she puts it, "vertically challenged" got married to Dutch Marceline Tutu-Van Furth, a lanky atheist and a professor of pediatric diseases in Amsterdam.

South Africa's Anglican church, where Tutu-Van Furth used to practice as a priest, isn't ready to accept gay  sexualities as members of its clergy.

Tutu-Van Furth who was ordained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., still have a chance to practice as a priests since the Episcopal Church based in the U.S, a branch of the Anglican Communion, accepts priests who have entered into same-sex marriages. 

 

“Because the South African Anglican church does not recognize our marriage, I can no longer exercise my priestly ministry in South Africa,” Tutu-van Furth told local media. “The bishop [of Cape Town] was instructed to revoke my license. I decided that I would give it to him rather than have him take it, a slightly more dignified option with the same effect.”

The marriage between the two women was held on Dec. 30, 2015, and since then Mpho Tutu-Van Furth didn't reveal that she was being forced out of the South African clergy until recently.

The South African Anglican church is to decide in the coming year whether to change its position.
South Africa legalized same-sex marriage in 2006, making it the first country to do so in Africa.

Desmond Tutu, renowned for his out spoken opposition to apartheid, has also stressed the need for LGBT equality.
“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place,” he said in 2013. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level.”
The newly wedded couple are currently on honeymoon in Bali.