Newlyweds Sharon Papo (left) and Amber Weiss (right) stand with Patti and David Weiss outside San Francisco City Hall after exchanging wedding vows on the first full day of legal same-sex marriages in California June 17, 2008. Gay marriage supporters see the move by the most populous U.S. state to allow same-sex weddings as an historic move long overdue, while opponents brand it a moral tragedy. REUTERS/Erin Siegal (UNITED STATES)
Ok, call me intolerant, archaich, stuck in the past, but i believe this is madness and it should end. So, the woman's parents are happy that their daughter has married another woman? They just don't know that had they followed the same path, the 'adorable' daughter would be absent...It is Francis Imbuga, the famous Kenyan playwright who said that when the madness of a nation afflicts an individual, perhaps, it is not enough to say that individual is mad!
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South Africa, so enadearingly labelled the 'powerhouse of Africa' by the powers that be in these Mugabean times, is said to be protected by the most liberal constitution in the world. Same-sex marriages were officially mooted a few years ago down here. Now I'm a Muslim, a conservative one at that (without being a terrorist), and I'm also South African. My community was recently catapulted into the throes of this dichotomy,when rumuors abounded that a prominent businessman and a televsion personality had committed themselves to a "gay Muslim marriage", a nikaah, and were already enjoying their honeymoon in Spain. While the rumour remains to be substantiated, or rubbished, it remained for the community to reconcile a Muslim identity to a South African one. How is that achieved?
The irony of a democracy, is that it inherently must protect the rights of minorities. Make no mistake, in my personal capacity, I am as opposed to homosexuality as you are, the bill of rights, affords me the right to that opinion and the right to the freedom of its expression, but it also affords rights to homosexuals. It's a secular democracy.
Uganda has yet to legislate homosexual marriages and during a recent Aids conference in Kampla I read of a group of advocates for homosexuality who caused some chaos by gatecrashing the conference. Do you think Uganda will soon be allowing same-sex marriages?
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