Editorial: A paroxysm of animosity towards gays

By Mashilo Mnisi

October 11, 2006: I find it really ludicrous and absurd for foul-mouthed individual such as Jon Qwelane to rudely confuse ‘logic’ and ‘reality’. Qwelane shows a lot of homophobia and enormous animosity towards homosexuals entirely.

This belligerent commentator fails to construe the fact that existence of gay people is a ‘reality’ and shouldn’t be elucidated in terms of and compared with his logic that seems to be understood differently according to different individuals.

Perverts like Qwelane himself cannot derail the intentions of human nature because it’s a reality that homosexuals are human beings, and like every citizen, are also supported and backed by the most logical entity – which is the most brilliant, sophisticated and representative law in the world, the South African Constitution.

For him to reason around ‘procreation’ is haywire and very disillusioned of his faculty because that would mean all those who cannot procreate should be condemned and perhaps killed. And I believe this brings us to a note of wisdom I got from one judge from South Africa when he said there are many people who cannot procreate irregardless of being gay or ‘straight’, whom we cannot isolate.

I’m just waiting for the day to come for Qwelane to renounce his children should they be gay as he claims – if they are indeed his own children.

The final word to Qwelane is that he should start writing very substantially and responsibly if he needs to be taken seriously in his career that seems to be stagnating.