Monday, December 31, 2012
Where conflict has torn a country
apart, religion can play an important role in bringing it back together.
Daniel Philpott
Prior to one hearing of South
Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, commission officials confronted
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His conduct of hearings, they claimed, had been too
religious. The commission was supposed to be a judicial body. It had been
enacted by the new South African constitution, enabled by parliamentary
legislation that carefully set forth its legal basis, and carried critical
legal consequences, especially for amnesty applicants. Should not Tutu separate
his role as head of this legal body from his role as a Christian pastor?
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