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When we attained our democracy, we sought to distinguish ourselves from an unjust painful past, by declaring that never again shall it be that any South African will be discriminated against on the basis of color, creed culture and sex

South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to the National Assembly after the South African parliament today approved new legislation recognizing gay marriages.

South Africa's constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, but this "Civil Unions Bill, which provides for same-sex marriage, makes South Africa the first African country to do so and one of only a few in the world."

As a former South African living in San Francisco, pressure to get gay married is becoming as intense as it is for straight women over 25.

Of course there are the South African equivalents of soon-to-be-former Senator, Rick Santorum, screeching about God as if their personal flaws and hypocrisies imply a direct link.

African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe warned:

May I remind this House that rejecting God's laws and despising His word will result in those doing it being given over to the consequences of their sins and to divine wrath. Members must also be reminded that God is not mocked.

Why are some forces trying to convince the nation that homosexuality is okay when God calls it abomination?

Now Meshoe and his ilk can join their panic-stricken American bretheren and watch their own precarious marriages disintegrate as the world comes to an end because two people of the same sex decide to commit themselves to one another.