CAMPAIGN AGAINST CITY’S SUPPORT OF MCQP
The notoriously homophobic Pastor Errol Naidoo, who heads up The Family Policy Institute (FPI), has launched a campaign against the City of Cape Town’s support of gay tourism and MCQP.
Naidoo wrote in a ‘Take Action Alert’ e-mail to his constituency and in letters to Cape Town’s newspapers that “the City of Cape Town is using rate-payers money to actively promote sexual perversion”.
He goes on to say that Cape Town Tourism (CTT) is “moonlighting as the marketing arm for the Mother City Queer Project (MCQP) – an annual celebration of the homosexual lifestyle”.
“CTT has no mandate to market CT as a ‘leading homosexual city’. The majority of citizens do not agree with the homosexual lifestyle and are horrified the city is being hijacked by ‘gay’ activists,” Naidoo adds.
Ian McMahon, director of MCQP, confirmed that CTT is one of the event’s partners, supplying financial and marketing support to MCQP, which takes place at the Cape Town Stadium on 18 December.
He noted that an economic impact assessment had shown that in 2009 alone MCQP brought R26 million to the city. “They [CTT] are simply supporting one niche market, among many other niche tourism markets, such as wine tourism,” said McMahon.
Naidoo, who also condemned the city’s hosting of Sexpo, urged his followers to take action by writing to Cape Town’s Mayor, CTT and the Provincial MEC for Economic Development & Tourism to express their outrage.
“This demonic infiltration of sexual perversion must be stopped before it takes root in our city and nation. The Church of Christ is strategically positioned to oppose this evil. Please act today!”
In turn, Christina Engela from the South African Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (SA GLAAD), called on the LGBTI community and its friends to write to Naidoo at enaidoo@familypolicyinstitute.com “in protest of his homophobic and discriminatory hogwash”.
“Please copy Cape Town Tourism (mariette@capetown.travel) in your email to show your support of the work that they are doing to market out city to various groups of people – straight and gay – across the world,” she added.
Naidoo’s Family Policy Institute is a Christian fundamentalist lobby group which is openly anti-gay and seeks to repeal same-sex marriage rights in South Africa.
Naidoo, who has said that he “hates gays”, has also organised campaigns against the annual Pink Loerie Festival in Knysna.
closet case. Stupid fucking closet case!
Read the Constitution!
Whether he likes it or not, we are here to stay, and South Africa is a secular state.
Thanks. Dear Errol,
Thank you for the free publicity. I believe that this year’s MCQP will be the biggest ever. Perhaps we can all chip in and get you a ticket. You’ll look simply fabulous in a Pucci mini, fishnets and Nancy Sinatra Come-Fuck-Me knee-high boots.
Jo Ma
Sorry, I wasn’t listening to what Errol Naidoo was saying. Too busy picturing him naked.
Amazing. I am time and again amazed at these so-called “RELIGIOUS LEADER” that advocate hatred and rejection and exclusion of fellow human beings, instead of tollerance, acceptance that was so clearly demonstrated in the Bible by Jesus. And that is why I have turned my back completely on the church of today, and I think God is really ashamed at these people calling themselves “God’s Children”
Wolf in Sheeps Clothing. It makes me angry when a Suit and Tie and stylized, clean-cut studio shot is meant to represent superior morality and values, implying any other representation is inferior and therefore, if we were to judge on face value (which is to be human), our moral values would be indicated by how we style ourselves. We all know that is bollocks.
Sadly this technique, the smoke and mirrors, is as old as creation itself and is used to portray a certain air of authority and should therefore not be questioned. Wrong!
As far as I understand it, Naidoo’s homophobia and prejudice is anything but Christ-like and the primary will of God, and it makes me extremely angry when his ilk take on the duty reserved only for God to condemn homosexuals based on his own personal prejudice.
The danger connected with the likes of such people who disseminate a prejudiced viewpoint under the cloak of Christianity is that they present a false teaching of Christ and ply on the ignorance of their followers who do not question and seek the truth to further their viewpoint.
The best you can do? Don’t take Naidoo or his kind’s word for it. Study and find the truth yourself, for yourself.
Where is the Love. Hateful, intolerant, ignorant and empty people masquerading as good-doers. This is absolutely pathetic. Instead of focussing their time on energy on addressing the many social ills, they choose to spread hate, intolerance and ignorance.
SAD HYPOCRITES!