EDITIORIAL: Let’s be fair and factual
Ignoramuses have been breathing down the neck of justice minister Yvonne Dausab, accusing her of everything under the sun insofar as the recent Supreme Court ruling pertaining to same-sex marriages is concerned.
Some demonstrators, without a shred of evidence, last week accused her of supposedly having a hand in the current High Court challenge against the sodomy law. They made no supporting claims. The minister had earlier made it known that she had no involvement in the challenge and that the organiser of the battle, a Dausab himself, was not a family member.
Dausab – the minister – is probably one of the sharpest knives we currently have in the drawer that is our Cabinet. In an executive arm teeming with ineffective ministers, she’s one of the brighter sparks in the otherwise dark echelons of Geingob’s Cabinet.
Her flaws, which every human possesses in abundance, are not uncommon. And they are not even remotely bad enough to warrant the demanded radical action of dismissing her for a crime no one has proven she has committed.
If the anti-gay brigade want to be taken seriously, they must convey that they take their own principles and the information they provide seriously. We can’t take their calls seriously because so many of them have been puffing hot wind. We cannot demand the expulsion of people just because their beliefs and ideas are perceived to be different from our own.
Some demonstrators, without a shred of evidence, last week accused her of supposedly having a hand in the current High Court challenge against the sodomy law. They made no supporting claims. The minister had earlier made it known that she had no involvement in the challenge and that the organiser of the battle, a Dausab himself, was not a family member.
Dausab – the minister – is probably one of the sharpest knives we currently have in the drawer that is our Cabinet. In an executive arm teeming with ineffective ministers, she’s one of the brighter sparks in the otherwise dark echelons of Geingob’s Cabinet.
Her flaws, which every human possesses in abundance, are not uncommon. And they are not even remotely bad enough to warrant the demanded radical action of dismissing her for a crime no one has proven she has committed.
If the anti-gay brigade want to be taken seriously, they must convey that they take their own principles and the information they provide seriously. We can’t take their calls seriously because so many of them have been puffing hot wind. We cannot demand the expulsion of people just because their beliefs and ideas are perceived to be different from our own.
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