Africans cheer, condemn S.Africa gay marriage bill
By Phumza Macanda Wed Nov 15, 10:25 AM ET
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africans reacted with a mix of horror and delight at news South Africa had passed a bill to legalize gay marriage, making it the first to do so on a continent where homosexuality is still largely taboo.
South Africa passes a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. We, on the other hand, have our panties in such a twist about same-sex marriage that 27 out of 50 states have amended their constitutions to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
This isn't to say that everyone in Africa approves of such:
"This is a foreign action imposed on Africa," Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed told Reuters in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, where powerful Islamists control the south of the country.
"This is not something that is indigenous to Africa, it is something that has come from abroad."
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Gay rights groups applauded the decision as a step forward for Africa. But some in deeply religious Africa lambasted the decision as "un-African" and immoral.
Not to mention that Africa certainly has its own Pat-Robertson-type-thinkers:
Taxi driver Nicklaus Mwanaseri in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salam said the decision to allow gays to wed was so immoral that it signified the world was coming to an end.
"I see a big flood coming soon because of going against God's teaching," he said.
