Editorial: aren’t you tired of splotches?

By Mashilo Mnisi (BtM Editor)

June 21, 2007: The ongoing seclusion and rejecting ordination of gays within churches, the Anglican in particular, is indeed hogwash. This jarring debate has gained momentum quite recently as outing of homosexuals within churches abounds, especially in Africa.

Gay primates are the ones hit hard as there are stringent opposing views that homosexuals cannot head churches, which is based on senseless and ungrounded beliefs from the opposites.

This is in fact nuisance because church doesn’t discriminate, and it’s open to anybody who is willing to serve the purpose thereof. Sometimes one might think that many church leaders have gone demented – and very naïve – because, accordingly, churches should serve to remove all social ills.

Well, the people of god, wake up; this insensitive belief is very tired. Let me just be silent about the largely debated discrimination in military.

Another depletion is when many countries, particularly in Africa, refuse gay people to get married. This is disrespect of human rights that subsume the right to privacy, the right to dignity and the right of choice as stipulated in the South African Constitution – which has been hailed as the most well drafted constitution in the world.

One asks how possible it could be for other constitutions to discriminate against other people while they’re being shaped and drafted to better and promote human lives. That’s the point some dissident legal studies refer to when saying in years to come people will have to be confined within shackles like animals living in zoos.

Look at the shocking discriminations in schools. Syllabus about gays is not there. By introducing this in schools, it will largely assist to combat the escalating Aids infections firstly, and the education can assist mend the social divide that’s plaguing human nature – and better understand each other.

Therefore protest by, lobbying and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex people against these nuisances is very much inevitable and of course relevant if we yearn a peaceful environment.

Hence I believe that the cause to despise all these discriminations is harnessed towards freedom, peace and human rights.

And still, it appears very much uncanny to me that the majority of the people on earth abhor and loathe freedoms of human beings, phew!