AZAPO CALLS FOR GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM
Azapo’s president has slammed the South African government ahead of the April 22 elections for not holding a referendum on same-sex marriage, reports the Sunday Independent.
The newspaper said that Mosibudi Mangena, who is also the Minister of Science and Technology, warned that the country could degenerate into a Zimbabwe-style crisis because the ANC-led government is not willing to listen to its people.
Mangena believes that if the public was allowed to vote it would reject same-sex marriage and bring back the death penalty.
“If today we were to vote, Azapo is quite sure the majority would say they want the death penalty back. If same-sex marriages and abortion were put to the vote, they would not come back because of what the majority of people think about (them).”
It is unclear if Mangena is aware that the legalising of same-sex marriage was imposed on the government by a Constitutional Court ruling based on the bill of rights enshrined in the constitution.
The Azanian People’s Organisation, or AZAPO is a South African political organisation that was founded in 1978. It currently only has one seat in parliament.
OF COURSE THEY WOULD VOTE AGAINST SAME SEX MARRIAGE! That is what we have the constitution for, to protect the rights of minorities. What kind of world would it be if the majority could simply take anything it wants and deny minorities the rights it has.
IMBECILE!
Appalling. Appalling statement by heterosexist bigots.
Why not change the constitution to remove voting rights for those who are left-handed?!
Shit for brains. Sounds an awful lot like discrimination to me. Just imagine if the majority were asked some other questions involving actual brain power. Wonder what wonderful answers they would come up with… Power to the people!
Imagine That. Unbelievable, and they really believe they can have any input whatsoever in the upcoming election?
We as gay people should raise our voices about hatepspeach like this. Does the constitution not aim to protect us against such blatant Bigotry?
I hope you have NO seats in Goverment whatsoever!
Upsetting. I’m sensing that someone is either homophobic or he wanna life his gay life in the closet ….sis brother get real and get with the program…the ANC might not be the party that we’ll wanna vote for but some of the laws are appropriate to it’s citizen
Again the idiocay of the uneducated shines. You know, if the blibbering idiot for one second sat and thought (but I doubt if he even can – probably got a grade 2 education) he would realise that a basic human right is NOT a democratic issue, and just because the majority says so, it is of no significance. Every single person have the RIGHT to freedom, not so? If you can vote to take away someone’s freedom, then apartheid was on the money. It was VOTED by the majority of whites that blacks should have no rights. Does that make it right? NO – FREEDOM IS A RIGHT THAT EVERYBODY HAS< NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE ELSE THINKS>
Wow….. Well you can see why they only have one seat. It should be 0 seat if you ask me. please lets bring in a law that if you are a AZAPO member you cant live in SA it comes down to the same thing.
Wow….. Well you can see why they only have one seat. It should be 0 seat if you ask me. please lets bring in a law that if you are a AZAPO member you cant live in SA it comes down to the same thing.