A voice of reason within the Anglican Church

Desmond Tutu's new biography is about to come out, and in it he declares that the Anglican Church's stand on homosexuality and gays in the church made him ashamed of being part of it:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the first authorized biography of the Nobel peace laureate, said he was ashamed of his Anglican Church's conservative position that rejected gay priests.
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The retired archbishop was critical of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for bowing on the gay priest issue to conservative elements, particularly African bishops, in the 77-million member Anglican Church that includes Episcopalians in the United States.

In a 1998 letter to Williams predecessor, Archbishop George Carey, Tutu wrote that he was "ashamed to be Anglican." It came after the Lambeth Conference of Bishops rejected the ordination of practicing homosexuals saying their sexual relations were "incompatible with scripture."

Tutu also said he was deeply saddened at the furor caused by the appointment of openly gay V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. "He found it little short of outrageous that church leaders should be obsessed with issues of sexuality in the face of the challenges of AIDS and global poverty," wrote Allen.

It's so nice and refreshing to see that there are still voices of reason among the crazies.

And Tutu correctly points out that it is shameful on the part of any religious institution to cling to ideals of the past and close the doors to those who want to join them and help those in need when there is so much suffering and so much need in the world.