In Africa, a step backward on human rights
By Desmond Tutu
Friday, March 12, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103341.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103341.html)
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity -- or because of their sexual orientation. Nor should anyone be excluded from health care on any of these grounds. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. We knew this was wrong. Thankfully, the world supported us in our struggle for freedom and dignity.
It is time to stand up against another wrong.