Page "Christianity and homosexuality" Paragraph 28

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

It is the same with sexual orientation.

It is a given.

... We treat them and lesbians as pariahs and push them outside our communities.

We make them doubt that they too are children of God – and this must be nearly the ultimate blasphemy.

We blame them for what they are.