Tutu’s daughter marries female partner
Mpho Tutu & Marceline van Furth
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, the Rev. Mpho A. Tutu, has married her female partner, Professor Marceline van Furth.
The couple tied the knot in The Netherlands last week, in what’s been described as a small and private ceremony.
“The couple are very grateful to their families and friends for their love and support‚” said the family in a statement.
The marriage is expected to be further celebrated in Cape Town in May.
The Rev. Tutu is the Executive Director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and is an experienced preacher, teacher and public speaker.
Van Furth is a professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam.
This is both women’s second marriage, with Tutu having been previously married to Joseph Burris; with whom she has two daughters.
Her 84-year-old father, the Archbishop Emeritus, is one of the world’s most high profile religious leaders to vocally support LGBT equality.
He’s criticised African states for targeting people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and has called for an end to discrimination and the criminalisation of homosexuality on the continent.
In 2013, Desmond Tutu famously said: “I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. I would not worship a God who is homophobic…”
Pictures: Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
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Now we understand why Desmond Tutu said, he rather go to hell than share heaven with a homophobic god, because his own daughter is a lesbian. This is a total disgrace to the body of Christ, the Tutu family are making a mockery of the Word of God and they will answer to God for misleading people. How can same sex marriages be normal, how can educated people agree with this? I understand that both women were previously married to men, what when wrong in their marriages that they opt for same sex marriage? I am praying for the Tutu families who has left the true ways of God to agree with sin. When they die one day God will deal with them.