Jon Qwelane was ’n joernalis wat in op 20 Julie 2008 hom in die artikel “Call me names, but gay is NOT okay …” uitgespreek het oor homoseksualiteit. Daarin het hy gesê dat hy hoop dat politici met ruggraat eendag die konstitusie sal verander wat toelaat dat mans met mans trou (en vroue met vroue), want hoe lank voor een of ander ’n idioot daarop aandring om met ’n dier te trou.

Hier is sy presiese woorde:

I do pray that some day a bunch of politicians with their heads affixed firmly to their necks will muster the balls to rewrite the constitution of this country, to excise those sections which give licence to men “marrying” other men, and ditto women.

Otherwise, at this rate, how soon before some idiot demands to “marry” an animal, and argues that this constitution “allows” it?

Vir die volledige artikel, kyk aan die onderkant.

Vir hierdie uitspraak het hy baie moeilikheid gekry: in 2017 is hy skuldig bevind aan haatspraak, moes amptelik omverskoning vra vir die LGBTQIA+-gemeenskap en moes die koste van die hof betaal. Hy het egter geappeleer.

In Desember 2020 is Qwelane oorlede, maar in Julie 2021 is hy weereens skuldig bevind.

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• ‘No doubt’ Jon Qwelane column amounted to hate speech: ConCourt (30 Julie 2021)
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Call me names, but gay is NOT okay… | Sunday Sun

By Jon Qwelane

Sunday, 20 July 2008

Oh dear, here we go yet again. The Anglican Church is heading for a split in its ranks, and homosexuals are the reason.

The church faces the first real schism since the day Henry VIII walked angrily out of the Catholic community to lead his own faction, because Rome would not sanction his marriage to Anne Boleyn, his brother’s widow.

This time some leftists among the Anglican Communion want not only more homosexuals ordained as bishops, but women as well.

The real problem, as I see it, is the rapid degradation of values and traditions by the so-called liberal influences of nowadays; you regularly see men kissing other men in public, walking holding hands and shamelessly flaunting what are misleadingly termed their “lifestyle” and “sexual preferences”.

There could be a few things I could take issue with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, but his unflinching and unapologetic stance over homosexuals is definitely not among those.

Why, only this very month — you’d better believe this — a man, in a homosexual relationship with another man, gave birth to a child!

At least the so-called husband in that relationship hit the jackpot, making me wonder what it is these people have against the natural order of things.

And by the way, please tell the Human Rights Commission that I totally refuse to withdraw or apologise for my views.

I will write no letters to the commission either, explaining my thoughts.

Trouble in the Anglican Communion began when the Episcopalian fraternity in America (where else?) decided to ordain a homosexual as bishop of the flock.

Here in South Africa we had a senior officer of the church in Cape Town parading his “gay lifestyle” openly.

The 10-yearly Lambeth Conference in England — the gathering is the world “synod” of the church – will deliberate the delicate matter of women and homosexual bishops, among other things.

Homosexuals and their backers will call me names, printable and not, for stating as I have always done my serious reservations about their “lifestyle and sexual preferences”, but quite frankly I don’t give a damn: wrong is wrong!

I do pray that some day a bunch of politicians with their heads affixed firmly to their necks will muster the balls to rewrite the constitution of this country, to excise those sections which give licence to men “marrying” other men, and ditto women.

Otherwise, at this rate, how soon before some idiot demands to “marry” an animal, and argues that this constitution “allows” it?