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30 January 1995
Thank you for the opportunity of
giving my contribution to the new con‑stitution of South Africa. As a
citizen of this country,
and as a Chris‑tian, I am very concerned about
three things in particular, these being:
- Abortion/Right
to Life
Life begins at the moment of conception, and each
child has the right to life - therefore I am totally opposed to the legalisation
of abortion on demand, and feel it would be such a shame if we joined the ranks
of other depraved nations who have no standard to
uphold in this area.
- Freedom
of Speech
I strongly support freedom of speech, but feel
that it would be to the detriment of the country to allow the media to write,
print
or display whatever they wish to. There are many innocent children who
would be deeply offended and damaged psychologically if this
were to be allowed.
Once again as a practising Christian and a concerned citizen, this would be
extremely offensive to both myself
and other Christians. I totally reject the
idea of a complete relaxation of censorship and the restrictions on importing
pornographic
materials, etc. I feel that already through Internet and the
various magazines and TV programmes, there has been too much relaxation
in this
area. Please provide us with a high moral standard in our country - we are
looking to you to set a good example.
- Sexual
Orientation
Not only Christians, but Moslems and many other
groups, are vehe‑mently opposed to 'gay rights' and the treatment
homosexual
rela‑tionships as healthy and normal. They are neither healthy
(being one of the biggest reasons for AIDS in the world today,
as well as being
very unhygienic) and are totally ABnormal. God created men and women to fulfil
totally different functions, both
sexually and otherwise. It is an abomination
to Him and to most human beings, to suggest otherwise. Homosexual 'marriage' is
also
something that is appalling to the intelligent, normal human being -and I
plead with you to not to include such a sadly immoral and
abnormal state of
affairs into our brand new constitution. We want a constitution we can be proud
of, and government we can look
up to - we can only do that if you provide a
moral base for our country.
Yours
faithfully
MS S CREED
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