{"id":25559,"date":"2016-05-25T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/desmond-tutu-s-daughter-loses-s-african-church\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:47:09","slug":"desmond-tutu-s-daughter-loses-s-african-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/desmond-tutu-s-daughter-loses-s-african-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu&#8217;s daughter loses S.African church licence after gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Desmond Tutu&#8217;s daughter has been forced to give up her duties as a priest in South Africa&#8217;s Anglican Church after she married a woman, she told AFP on Tuesday.}<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu-van Furth can no longer preside at Holy Communion, weddings, baptisms or funerals after handing in her licence because the church does not recognise gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>She said her father, the retired archbishop and celebrated anti-apartheid campaigner, was &#8220;sad but not surprised&#8221; at the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The canon (law) of the South African Church states that marriage is between one man and one woman,&#8221; Tutu-van Furth said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After my marriage&#8230; the Bishop of Saldanha Bay was advised that he must revoke my licence. I offered to return my licence rather than require that he take it from me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mpho and Marceline Tutu-van Furth have been on honeymoon on the Indonesian island of Bali after holding a wedding party outside Cape Town earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Tutu, 84, who has been in frail health, attended the celebrations with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>He has previously spoken out in favour of gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Marceline Tutu-van Furth is a Amsterdam-based professor specialising in paediatric infections.<\/p>\n<p>The couple &#8212; who are both divorced and have children &#8212; officially tied the knot in the Netherlands in December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My wife and I meet across almost every dimension of difference. Some of our differences are obvious; she is tall and white, I am black and vertically challenged,&#8221; Mpho told the South African City Press newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ironically, coming from a past where difference was the instrument of division, it is our sameness that is now the cause of distress,&#8221; she said in a reference to apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex marriage was legalised in South Africa in 2006.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12417 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/world002_pix.jpg\" alt=\"Mpho (L) and Marceline Tutu-van Furth (R) have been on honeymoon on the Indonesian island of Bali after holding a wedding party outside Cape Town earlier this month \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Desmond Tutu&#8217;s daughter has been forced to give up her duties as a priest in South Africa&#8217;s Anglican Church after she married a woman, she told AFP on Tuesday.} Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu-van Furth can no longer preside at Holy Communion, weddings, baptisms or funerals after handing in her licence because the church does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25559"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25559"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}