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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Rev. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who had compared anti-LGBTQ laws and violence to the apartheid laws and violence of his native South Africa, died early Sunday in Cape Town. He was 90.<\/p>\n

Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his impassioned campaign against apartheid in South Africa while Nelson Mandela languished in prison, was a moral beacon not only in the deeply troubled South African nation but became a respected beacon and a tireless advocate for human rights around the globe.Tutu\u2019s human rights work led to prominent honors and global recognition. In 2009, then-President Obama awarded him the nation\u2019s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n

The outspoken Tutu was considered South Africa\u2019s conscience by both its Black and white citizens, an enduring testament to his faith and spirit of reconciliation in that divided nation.<\/p>\n

The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of negotiations between 1990 and 1993 and through unilateral steps by F.W. de Klerk, the president of South Africa. The negotiations resulted in South Africa\u2019s first non-racial election, which was won by the African National Congress, after which Tutu managed to irritate the ANC government that took power after as much as he had angered the apartheid regime previously.<\/p>\n

As a ranking prelate in the Anglican communion (church), the Archbishop worked for universal suffrage, equal rights for women, and pressed hard for the recognition for full equality of LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n

Tutu pressed for equal access for LGBTQ people, participating in the U.N. Free and Equal campaign, the international body\u2019s global campaign against homophobia and transphobia, in a recorded video said;<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to tell you, I cannot keep quiet when people are penalised for something about which they can do nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, gender. When women are excluded, just simply and solely because they are women.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut more perniciously, more ghastly, is the fact that people are penalized, killed, all sorts of ghastly things happen to them, simply, solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI oppose such injustice with the same passion that I opposed apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn\u2019t worship that God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. The Rev. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who had compared anti-LGBTQ laws and violence to the apartheid laws and violence of his native South Africa, died early Sunday in Cape Town. He was 90. Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his impassioned campaign against apartheid in South Africa while Nelson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[2355,2361,3577,260,3578],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-archbishop","tag-gambia","tag-lgbtq"],"yoast_head":"\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu, a key LGBTQ ally, dies at 90 - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rev. 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