Desmond Tutu to Anglicans: Get Over It

Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on Africa's Anglican church to let go of what he called its "extraordinary obsession" with gay priests and same-sex marriage.  The church should, instead, be paying attention to the crises caused by AIDS, Darfur and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe's corruption. 

"We've, it seems to me, been fiddling whilst as it were our Rome was burning. At a time when our continent has been groaning under the burden of HIV/Aids, of corruption," said Tutu in a BBC interview.  Tutu's frustration with Africa's bishops is but one manifestation of the tension within the worldwide Anglican communion over matters of sexuality. (More Africa stories.)