Inilah yang baqgus di dunia Nasrani yang kudu ditiru orang Islam: kebebasan
untuk menyatakan pendapat.
Didunia Islam, beda pendapat bisa maut tantangannnya, seperti yangn dialami
oleh ahli tasawuf Sudan Mahmud Muh.Taha yang mati digantung.
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Atau fatwa mati yagndikeluarkan Ayatollah Khomeyny terhadap Salman Rushdie.
BBC NEWS
Church obsessed with gays - Tutu
By Robert Pigott
Religious Affairs Correspondent
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the Anglican church of allowing its
"obsession" with homosexuality to come before real action on world poverty.
"God is weeping" to see such a focus on sexuality and the Church is "quite
rightly" seen by many as irrelevant on the issue of poverty, he said.
It may be good to "accept that we agree to differ" on the gay issue, he said..
Archbishop Tutu was addressing a conference of church leaders organised by the
Christian charity Tearfund.
The Church says its work on poverty tends to be overlooked.
The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, John Packer, said that apart from the
government, the Church of England was the biggest provider of social services
at home.
The Anglican Communion was also a major contributor to international projects
such as Make Poverty History and the Millennium Development Goals, he said.
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Tutu: 'I am ashamed of homophobia' in the Church
More than 600 Anglicans marched through London in July to draw attention to the
increasing danger that the goals - which include eradicating extreme poverty by
2015 - will not be met.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown told them that millions of people owed the Anglican
Communion a debt of gratitude for upholding the cause of the poor.
Archbishop Tutu told the conference in London that the Anglican Church was
ideally placed to tackle poverty because of its presence at the heart of
communities in the UK and overseas.
However, he said he sometimes felt ashamed of his fellow Anglicans as they
focussed obsessively on trying to resolve their disagreement about
homosexuality while 30,000 people died each day because of poverty.
"We really will not be able to win wars against so-called terror as long as
there are conditions that make people desperate, and poverty, disease and
ignorance are amongst the chief culprits," he said.
'Totally irrelevant'
"We seem to be engaging in this kind of, almost, past-time [while] there's
poverty, hunger, disease, corruption.
"I must imagine that God is weeping, and the world quite rightly should dismiss
the Church in those cases as being totally irrelevant."
Archbishop Tutu accused some of his fellow Anglicans of going against the
teaching of Jesus in their treatment of homosexual people by "persecuting the
already persecuted".
The South African Nobel peace laureate said traditionalists were wrong to
suggest that gay people had chosen homosexuality and the dispute had to be kept
in proportion.
It will be good for us obviously, to resolve our differences on this, and
maybe accept that we agree to differ
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"It will be good for us obviously, to resolve our differences on this, and
maybe accept that we agree to differ," he said.
For the Anglican Communion, that is more easily said than done.
Traditionalists suspect that the call for an end to discussions about
homosexuality is designed to allow liberal developments to go unchallenged.
Others, including Bishop John Packer, insist that the Church must have a sexual
ethic - a sense of what is right and wrong in sexual behaviour.
Most agree that only by staying united will it continue to exercise real
influence on the world stage.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news..bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/7602498.stm
Published: 2008/09/07 01:22:31 GMT
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