Dear Editor,
Jon Qwelane is showing his true colours at last - that of a bigot, a hypocrite and a homophobe (in my humble opinion). His comments should be seen as verging on, if not actual, hate speech, by equating gays with animals.
Does he not understand a very simple legal requirement called consent"? An animal, as shown in the equally disgraceful sketch by Findlay, can not ever give its legal consent to marry, nor can a child or a person that is deemed by law to be unable to give consent due to, for instance, a mental condition.
A constitution which states that animals can marry is a legal impossibility. But that is quite beyond Mr Qwelane's grasp. Gay rights are part and parcel of the collective known as "human rights" - Mr Qwelane's shouting from the rooftops in his support for Jacob Zuma's human rights therefore makes him a hypocrite.
One can not be selective when demanding "human rights". I sincerely hope that his threat to the Human Rights Commission will not go unnoticed.
A charge should be laid immediately at the HRC and press ombudsman, and, seeing that he says he is 100% behind Zuma's defamation suit, a class action suit against him and his newspaper should be considered so that Mr Qwelane feels what it is like to be sued.
Coenie Kukkuk,
Brooklyn
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