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16/6/1995
I am a 29-year-old lady who has never had a right to make an input into a
constitution. Particularly as we are people of such diverse
cultures, beliefs
and ethnic groupings. I am not highly educated or rich and am a disability
pensioner and apologise for my stationery.
I would like to address the
rights of the "gay" community. The gay people have never been taken into
account in regard to anything,
yet they pay their taxes and fulfil their duties
in the community.
- . The
"gay" people want a right to be recognised and to be treated normally, e.g.
restaurants, cinemas, etc.
- "Gay"
people want a right to be able to marry legally and thereby receive recognition,
e.g. if two women have been together for eight
years, that the non-working
housewife can take the breadwinner's surname and belong to the breadwinner's
medical aid fund, as is
the right of married couples at present.
- Gay
people want to walk down the street in freedom without someone assaulting or
swearing at them.
- Gay
people would also like to go to church and serve the Lord. If this is
impossible, how can straight people call themselves Christians,
because if
lesbianism and homosexuality are sinful, they particularly need the Lord.
- The
"gay" people want a legal right to have a sexual relationship with the gender of
their choice and to practice it like any normal
married life.
- The
"gay" people want a legal right to adopt children and to care for them as their
own, after proper investigations by welfare.
- The
"gay" community wants a right to be treated with respect and that there may in
no way be any discrimination against them simply
because they are gay, or that
they lose their job because the employer has found out that they are
"gay".
J.A. Snyders
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