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Only 5% of our nation accepts that we are all born equal, really something to think about.
What percent of the world in general accepts homosexuality? What percent of Britain or America? Fact is, people generally don't like open gays globally, especially with Christian influence. At least here in Africa we don't have a history of torturing gay men to death by sticking red hot pokers up their bums, something that is a documented part of European culture and tradition...
really, the ONLY? to say that a harmless, peaceful and productive marridge, only to lower the high African rates of sexually transmitted diseases is wrong, pretty much says something.
Are you serious? Opposing gay marriage opposes marriage in general? You DO know that one of the most common arguments against homosexuality used by some leaders is that it threatens marriage and family -- the nucleus of traditional African society?
Gay men in societies where gay marriage is illegal have to choose to be faithful and safe, just like in societies where it is legal. You can't legislate self-preservation.
Africa doesnt care about anything but it's narcissistic culture
Relax. You're becoming erratic.
If you and your neighbour are being chased by armed killers whom you stole drug money from, and he falls and breaks his leg in 4 separate places and absolutely can't move, and you decide to leave him hidden in a corner because you never knew him anyway and he wasn't really a nice guy, you're not being a narcisist, you're only saving yourself. It's not because you love yourself obsessively, it's because you realise that no matter how much you suck, you do at least deserve to live -- your life is the only thing left worth fighting for.
People hate Africans and their culture. They disparage it, call it names like "backward" and "barbaric". They want to fight Africans for doing what everybody else does in peace: celebrating their unique beliefs and using them to better themselves. They honestly think that the biggest problem that Africa has is that it is too bloody AFRICAN! It's not something I've heard of or read in some polemic article -- just look at the opinions expressed in this thread and much of the threads on this sub-board, by people who live here but positively relish in the idea that they're not African because if they were they couldn't claim to be better in every way. You have people whose ancestors have been here for 3, 4 hundred years who proudly proclaim that they're not African, because if they admitted that they belong here than they would lose the ability to make self-righteous jokes about Zuma dancing in leopard skins without a sublime sense of irony.
We literally have nothing to lose except the very essence of ourselves. So, like a dog that's been forced into a corner, we don't gnash and bite because we love ourselves so much and we think we're so great, we do it because we can feel our imminent death.
Unfortunately, some American Christians told idiot African Christians that the "gay agenda" is to recruit poor Africans and destroy the family and procreation -- the very foundation of African society. This is the problem: not that homosexuality is not particularly appealing, but rather that some people have it in their head that it actively wants to destroy the family.
This is the same tactic that these Christians used everywhere else, but here it acquires a new level of desperation. Just when we've managed to chase Europe away with their chains and and their maps and their mines and their usury and their conditional "aid", they come with their latest assualt strategy. This is what causes the explicit anger instead of implicit disapproval.
And Christianity -- the mythology that teaches people that poverty, suffering, disease, pain, inequity are just temporary worldly ailments that you won't have to deal with forever if you die devoted enough -- is particularly appealing here. Even though the European parents are becoming increasingly aware that Father Christmas is not actually real, their African children honestly do believe in him due to the allure of sweets and presents if they're good enough.
The problem, and the solution, is UNDERSTANDING and ACCEPTANCE. Not a further hostile eroding of Africanness. All it takes is for the leadership to accept homosexuality as a responsible personal choice, which is what the ANC did in the 1980s. The goal of the LGBTI community now should not be public acceptance, it should be legal protection, thus your statistics about how most South Africans/Africans disapprove of gays are moot.
You can't force people to accept you, you can just ask them to leave you the fsck alone. Freedom of belief and conscience works both ways...
