Comments on: SA CARDINAL & VATICAN BACKTRACK ON PRO-GAY STATEMENT

By: Siduduzo Mncube

Siduduzo Mncube — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:12:59 +0000

Such incidents put our hard work as human rights activists at the edge. Recently Cardinal Wilfred Napier was with some of the staff members of the Gay & Lesbian Network at a dialogue in Durban. What happens is people do not open up to what they feel or think is right. When one is at an event, they agree to the status qou. Thereafter cant support their agreements when they are in their respective organizations.
The cardinal may have realized the gifts of LGBTI people and the potential positive contribution they could bring to the church. When he returned to his colleagues, he could not further support his statement to his fellow cardinals at the synod. The churches have set their laws and thus does not allow any alterations or accommodations of other people within the church.
With the ever changing times and contexts that we live in. Churches should be more open-minded in order to bring people to the Lord. Instead they drive people away with the same set of bylaws they have set out. If homosexuality was some sort of demon, surely the church should be able to destroy that demon with prayer and exorcism. It is sad that the people who live different lives are not catered for in these churches no matter how much they try to come to God.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 06:11:59 +0000

This thing is a disgrace to the church , Typical of the rubbish the pervades this country

By: MartinR

MartinR — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:24:47 +0000

This church and its homophobic, ignorant clergy is becoming more and more irrelevant in people’s lives, and I am sure that God is relived that this is happening. I left christianity many years ago because of this homophobia, and I am glad that I am free to make my own decisions based on the values my parents taught me. I have seen catholic priests in gay bars and clubs. I have seen two of them at a well known gay steam bath in Johannesburg. Their hypocrisy turns my stomach. They have no balls to stand up for those gay church-goers who still suffer under their hate-speech, so I have no respect for them. Card. Napier is also lying when he says he doesn’t know any homosexuals. He has some of them, well known to the old gay “Roman Lounge” in Morningside, Durban, working for him.