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like every LGBTQIA+ child who has come out of the closet only to be thrown out of the house, I feel bereft. The South African church that was the mother of my faith has disowned me.

Mpho Andrea Tutu

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Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth (born 1963) is a South African Anglican Priest author and activist. She is the daughter of Archbishop Desmond and Leah Tutu. She co-wrote two books with her father, and a biography about him with the journalist Allister Sparks. She was ordained in 2003, but the Anglican Church of South Africa will not permit her to work as a priest in the church because she is married to a woman, Marceline van Furth. In 2022, she began preaching in Amsterdam.

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Alternative Names: Mpho Tutu • Mpho Tutu van Furth • Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth

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