Desmond Tutu: Anti-gay laws ‘as wrong as apartheid’
Desmond Tutu: Anti-gay laws ‘as wrong as apartheid’
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for the global decriminalisation of homosexuality to aid the fight against HIV, comparing anti-gay laws to racial segregation in his home country of South Africa.
Writing in The Lancet, the former Archbishop of Cape Town said the laws around the world which criminalise “so many forms of human love and commitment” will be looked on in the future in a similar way to apartheid laws, calling them “so obviously wrong”.
As part of the Lancet’s series on HIV transmission among men who have sex with men, the cleric calls for greater acceptance of LGBT people to reduce stigma.
He wrote: “The papers in The Lancet Series on HIV in men who have sex with men (MSM) tell us about how far we have to go in providing care, in acceptance, in ceasing to withhold our love.
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