Knysna fires are God’s wrath against gays: Pink Loerie responds
A man has claimed that God has punished the fire-ravaged town of Knysna because it hosts the annual Pink Loerie LGBTIQ Festival and supports marriage equality.
A screengrab of the appalling post has been circulating on social media. In it, a man called Bossie Boshoff writes in Afrikaans:
“Morning everyone… Do you remember last year when Knysna was decked out in pink and hosted 12 homosexual marriages in one day? That was just after the vote by the NG Kerk to approve gay marriage… It was all over the newspapers… in which God was challenged… They mustn’t now cry about the fire… God won’t allow himself to be mocked!”
The 2016 edition of the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival held a mass wedding of 15 same-sex couples to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Civil Union Act, which made same-sex marriage legal in South Africa.
While Mambaonline has not been able to independently verify the homophobic post, as the individual’s Facebook page appears to no longer be active, numerous sources say it is genuine.
Johann van Niekerk, from the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival Foundation, expressed his shock at Boshoff’s alleged comments.
“It is sad that people in this day and age still believe in hatred and bigotry to such an extent that they laugh with excitement when a natural disaster like this occurs and a whole town is impacted and brought to the brink of total destruction,” Van Niekerk told Mambaonline.
The organisers earlier this week announced their relief effort to assist residents affected by the deadly fires that have raged in the area. On Thursday, they traveled to the town to personally assist, helping to distribute water, baby food, maize meal and other supplies to victims.
“The Pink Loerie Festival has called Knysna our home for the last 17 years, and that was one of the reasons we jumped in to start assisting with the raising of funds and donations,” said Van Niekerk. “We will continue to support and help the people in Knysna, now and in the foreseeable future.”
Helping to distribute supplies
“It is really bad,” added the event’s John O’Neil from the devastated town. “Unless you are here to experience it for yourself you won’t realise how bad it is. It’s just before noon but it looks like it’s six in the evening because of the smoke.”
In July last year, a George woman, Desiree du Preez, was taken to the Equality Court for making similar remarks about the Pink Loerie Festival on Facebook.
She wrote in April: “People of Eden, why do we allow a curse on our region due to the Pink Loerie Festival and mass gay marriage? It is only because Christians do nothing. Let us stand up and tell the gays they are no longer welcome. They have to find another home.”
Du Preez agreed in court to offer an unconditional apology to the gay community in the local newspaper and on Facebook, and to undergo sensitivity training.
To find out more about how you can help the Pink Loerie’s Knysna fire relief initiative click here.
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This was forwarded to the National Executive of Netcare 911 and Netcare group. The staff member was suspended, and has to appear at a disciplinary hearing next week. Netcare has distanced itself from his stance.
He is not alone in his thinking…. I’m referring to C.J. badenhorst and postbox ministeries of course
Why did they suspend staff member? It is the truth I said it months ago God will hit Western Cape with natural disasters for disobedience for allowing these perverted same sex marriage and for also killing unborn babies through abortions. Brace yourself for many more natural disaster, like Sodom and Gomorra was destroyed, God will punish us for disobedience. No matter how you look at it homosexuality is not normal and will remain an abomination to God. Bossie was spot on and I agree with him. I will try to get hold of him and offer support. With Faithful Word Baptist Church opening its door very soon they will have a place to come to, and worship the God of the true Bible. Soon and very soon you will hear about we opening for our first service and we try everything in out power to bring Steven L Anderson to open new building.
Oh really? If God hated gays so much, don’t you think other countries would be affected by this to? How would you feel if your wife/girlfriend /partner sleeps around with other men or woman, is that not a sin? I had a great chat with a homophobic last week. And man did she almost want to cry after I spoke to her with some of my other lesbian friends. If you want to really be a christian then do the God of the work and not only the work of God. And remember one thing, many are called but a few are chosen. I didn’t choose my sex at birth, my parents decided for me. So who do I blame? My parents or God for giving me a penis and a vagina? Tell me…
Oscar, so did the fires only destroy the property of gay people?
Your book is an outdated version of nothing written by illiterate goat herders. Why don’t you go buy yourself a slave too?
Hypocrite much?
This Oscar thing seems to love being on this website !
823/5000
The existence of humble beings such as Bossie Bosshof and “Reverend” (?) Oscar Peter Bougardt are a clear demonstration that there is no god. If God existed would not allow their existence. If god existed he would not tolerate racism, homophobia, pedophilia, religious wars, and all the disadvantages the human race is capable of. Holy scriptures, the Bible, the Torah, the Qur’an, the Buddhist canon, are just ancient moral codes written thousands of years ago and today totally inadequate. I have read them all and I understand that they are simple variations of each other and foment hate and contempt for others, who are foreigners, faithful to other religions, men with skins of other colors. Yet it would be enough to remember the fundamentals of the Latin right to live honestly and respect others. Honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere: to live honestly, to injure no one, to give to each his own.
There is no need to invent a god to live honestly and respect the nature we live in. Which is beautiful also
because there are differences: differences in color, gender, race.
Condolences to Knysna, its inhabitants, its trees, its animals.
Just say if our pink money is not welcome in Knysna, we can always take it to another more open society.