I see where Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of a confab in South Africa because fellow man of faith Tony Blair is to be featured as guest speaker.
This must pain our Lord something fierce. Oh, maybe not... we're all God's children after all, and quite a lot of us can't stand our fellow children, or some of them at least.
Tutu's got his robes in a twist because in his mind Phoney Tony's support for the war on Iraq was morally repugnant. Well, it was, but doesn't your holy book teach that you should forgive? Sure it does!
Forgiveness isn't something the believer can be selective about. In fact, the greater the forgivee's moral turpitude, the more gracious the act of forgiveness, so from that perspective Blair represents an opportunity for a major gesture of grace on Tutu's part.
Then again, maybe Tutu's just pissed that Tony gets a bigger speaker's fee.
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