ACDP ‘WELCOMES GAY VOTES’
In an astonishing display of political hypocrisy, the homophobic African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has said that it welcomes votes from gay people and prostitutes in Wednesday’s local government elections.
The party’s president Kenneth Meshoe told the Sunday Times that “…we don’t go around asking people what sexual orientation are you when it’s election time”.
He said that although the party was against homosexuality, “when we are given a mandate, we’ll have to serve even those homosexuals… because we won’t be asking (if) you are a Christian or not a Christian. We are going to treat everyone equally.”
When asked how he would convince a gay person to vote for his party, Meshoe replied: “I would say, ‘I love you as a person, but I disagree with (your sexual orientation). The fact that we disagree on this one point should not make you stop me from giving you good service (as a public representative).’”
The ACDP opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage in South Africa, blocked a parliamentary motion to congratulate South Africa’s new Mr. Gay World, and has even welcomed anti-gay legislation in other countries.
Commenting on the Sunday Times article, openly-gay celebrity and trends analyst Dion Chang tweeted: “The ACDP (always vocally opposed to homosexuality) now ‘welcomes gay votes’. I say, piss off.”
More of this attitude please. Homophobes abound. That’s the reality of life. We all have our differences and are in some respect entitled to them. While the ACDP may not see my vote, when Meshoe says “I would say, ‘I love you as a person, but I disagree with (your sexual orientation). The fact that we disagree on this one point should not make you stop me from giving you good service (as a public representative).’” can only command respect and this is the sort of attitude we need to see more from from those that choose not to see eye to eye with “us”. With an attitude like that of Meshoe’s, there’d be no such thing as corrective rape.
Ja right!!!! WTF!! And then…after elections????
r u joking?. The fact is that their inherent hatred of gays DOES make them unable to give gays proper service in government, of which some examples are given in the article!!!
Surely you aren’t taken in by this sickening blatant lying just to get into office and then do exactly what their religion tells them to, viz. discriminate against gays???
While I agree with you that this attitude is commendable, the actions of the ACDP show how empty his promises are. Maybe the ACDP would be able to build toilets (thankfully we’ll never know) but it will not serve the gay community.
On a side note, even if they didn’t want gay voters voting for them, they couldn’t stop us. It’s a little presumptuous of him “welcoming” gay votes.
no. I’m afraid I disagree with you. This is not a respectable notion in the fashion of ‘hate the sin, love the sinner’. He does not have the mental capacity to do that. It is however a desperate plea from a waning politician, saying ‘yes that’s right, vote for me, but don’t expect any loyalty in return. Give me your votes, and I’ll take your rights away’. The gay community did not get said rights by voting randomly and hoping for the best. We should NEVER get comfortable enough to fall for crap like this, and hope that our lives will remain the same. Albeit local government elections, I say let us not take that chance.
hypocrites. Oh NOW all of a sudden they want our vote, yet they were the ones that called for the gay marriage rights to be scrapped just a few months ago. NO WAY IN HELL will I ever vote for you.
April Fools Joke ?. Please tell the ACDP it is not the first April 2011. The can stop making jokes now. The ACDP is the most homophobic political party in South African history. Get real all they want is votes, their after the will start their homophobic campaigns again. No thank you this is a wolf in sheep cloths
Baby kissing mindless idiots should fuck off.
Arse sucker. . Lol. Such an arse sucker . . These parties are jokes!
agreed. I Think they should go jump, i wonder if this has anything to do with the snotty email i sent them after blocking gongrats of Mr Gay SA…