Article: ANC has distanced itself from gay comments

The ANC has distanced itself from an MP's comments about people's unwillingness to promote and protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

ANC MP and chairman of the constitutional review committee Patekile Holomisa told City Press newspaper that sexual orientation had always been a touchy subject for the ANC caucus.
 
Holomisa told the newspaper that gay people should not be "molested and raped" and said that homosexuality occurred when certain cultural rituals had not been performed.

"... [W]hen the rituals are done the person starts to behave like other people in society. I don’t know how it works for people in other cultures and those who live in urban areas," he said.
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When are these neanderthals going to try and venture past the 14th century!

Seriously, someone who believes gays come from uncompleted rituals needs to shut tfu and never embarrass rational South Africans again.
 
daveza said:
When are these neanderthals going to try and venture past the 14th century!

Seriously, someone who believes gays come from uncompleted rituals needs to shut tfu and never embarrass rational South Africans again.
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Yeah it's like religions that are intolerant towards homosexuals. At least the ANC are distancing themselves from that aspect of backward notions.
 
Fudzy said:
Yeah it's like religions that are intolerant towards homosexuals. At least the ANC are distancing themselves from that aspect of backward notions.
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Agree, its pretty scary how so many people are still so intolerant towards homosexuals. Good to see the ANC making a stand (or at least distancing themselves), even if it may not be popular with some of their supporters.
 
"The last time this issue was discussed was about same sex marriages. Most of the people in the caucus were opposed to it, but then Luthuli House and the leadership instructed us to vote for it,"
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A true democracy is in place - sound just like the SS or KGB
 
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