UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Jamie Manson | Feb. 19, 2013
With all due to respect to John Allen’s “papabile profile” of Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson, those who have commented on his piece are right to raise the concern that Allen does not highlight Turkson’s disturbing beliefs about homosexuality.
Last year, the National Catholic Register reported on Turkson’s response to a speech that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s offered to 54 African nations at the African Union Summit. Ki-moon asked government leaders to honor the U.N.’s Universal Declaration by protecting women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination and by decriminalizing gays and lesbians.
According to the National Catholic Register:
Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said some of the sanctions imposed on homosexuals in Africa are an “exaggeration,” but argued that the “intensity of the reaction is probably commensurate with tradition.”
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