Archbishop Tutu rebukes his church on its misplaced priorities

You may have heard that the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church USA is a part, has been in something of an internal tizzy the last few years since the ECUSA named an openly, actively homosexual bishop to its hierarchy, the Rev. Gene Robinson. More conservative elements in the church have been tossing around the word "schism" with increasing frequency lately as the American church has steadfastly refused to defrock Robinson or demote him from his bishopric.

Now comes Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to remind them of all the people suffering in disease, poverty and violence while they argue about a supremely asinine matter instead of working to help them. Rather forcefully, in fact, and you can read about it here thanks to BBC News.

Money quote: "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."

You tell' em, Your Eminence. They will never in all likelihood listen, of course, but when J.C. does finally return to judge their sorry asses, they can't say they weren't warned.