SA GAY MARRIAGE LAW CAUSES UPROAR IN ZIM
While Zimbabwe’s openly homophobic president, Robert Mugabe, has not yet directly commented on the subject, the legalisation of same-sex marriage in South Africa has already caused controversy among his country’s politicians.
A recent delegation of South African officials to Harare was met with negative comments on the Civil Union Act by State Security Minister, Didymus Mutasa.
The minister slammed the legalising of same-sex marriage in South Africa in a speech to welcome the 60 officials. According to reports, one of the delegates, South African Defence Minister Patrick Lekota, was angered enough by the comments to consider filing a formal complaint. Zimbabwe later claimed that the comments were meant as a joke.
Ironically, last week, the official opposition in Zimbabwe’s parliament, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), found itself in Mugabe’s homophobic camp by attempting to pass a motion condemning its neighbour’s legalisation of gay marriage.
When the move was rejected, Moses Mzila-Ndlovu, an MDC parliamentarian, “accused” members of the government of being gay. He however refused to mention any names and was later forced to apologise “in the interests of progress”.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the acting leader of the ruling party, was quoted by state media as saying that, “In Zimbabwe, we are very clear that men marry women and women get married to men. In Zimbabwe we prohibit marriages of similar sexes… [But] we have no duty to criticize laws passed by another parliament.”
Recent laws have made it illegal for two people of the same-sex to hold hands or kiss in public in Zimbabwe, adding to the country’s existing sodomy laws which have imprisonment as a penalty.
South Africa is the first country in Africa to legalise same-sex marriage.
Why so much worry!. I am gay, maybe I might get married to a man one day or maybe not. Why do people worry so much about things that do not concern them? The Council of Churches or Zimbabwe? People must worry about other things (Poverty, HIV/Aids, Crime, etc.) and let the gay community worry about their issues. If decide to get married to a man, who cares? I would not harm anyone! Would I?
Finally at last!!!…. Yes, the thing is people would never understand Gay relationships as they don’t have the same feeling as we do. It is no surprise to me that Other countries won’t approve of what South Africa has done for us. We’ve been leaving our lives mostly to impress the next person next to you. It is about time we really be ourselves and be true to our inner feelings.
Everyone in this world was born to fulfill his desires about life not for someone else. I won’t say that I’m I’ll do what ever suits me and F@#k every one else. In real life we all need each other. There are so much qualities that we have also that can contribute to this country but that won’t happen if we don’t love each other because of different personalities we have.
Everyone has a right to express what he feels.
Well done South Africa
U’ve offered me a home to breathe on.
Yeah!!!. Yeah Dumisani. I support you 100%
This is a place I would be for the rest of my life.
neighbours. Well although Zim might be our neighbour,they wouldn’t exist without our aid…and thus do not have grounds for comment.
And with regard to holding hands,in Africa ,it seems that it is traditional for this to happen…I see it every day…
DON’T BE PERSONAL.. you know it’s really funny on how people like to say that gays are from the devil(biblically speaking)BUT I never come up with a scripture that says the devil made a human being only God has the power and people who are like that, are the one who are fighting with their inner gay being,that’s why they like to explode.
one last thing,God loves us all that’s is why most of us GAYS are successfull in every area of our lives because we are good at hearts and GOD LOOKS AT THAT IN A PERSON,WE DON’T JUDGE!!
OOHH!!!!I ALMOST FORGOT,THE STORY OF SODOM AND HOMORA(MIND MY SPELLING)PLEASE MY BEAUTIFUL GAYS DON’T BE CONFUSED BY SUCH STORIES BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED THERE WAS MEN SLEEPING WITH OTHER MEN AND WE ARE GAYS(WHICH MEANS HAPPY PEOPLE)SO THEY NEVER SAID GAYS SLEPT WITH MEN,YOU SEE!!!
AFTERALLTHEY WOULD KILL OR SAY YOU ARE A SINNER IF YOU GIVE BIRTH TO A DEFORMED CHILD DURING THOSE BIBLICAL TIMES BUT WHY CAN’T THEY SAY PEOPLE WHO GIVE BIRTH TO SUCH BABIES NOW ARE SINNERS?YOU SEE THEY ARE F+*@#N PERSONAL.
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