Mpho Tutu van Furth speaks of her sadness that the South African Anglican church refuses to let her work following her marriage her partnerFor someone who is in esteem and recently married, a wedge of “very odd pain” is lodged in Mpho Tutu van Furths heart.
It is caused by the South African Anglican church’s refusal to allow the daughter of one of the world’s best known Christian leaders to continue to work as a priest after she married the person with whom she has pledged to share the rest of her life: a woman.
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Source: theguardian.com