At it again! Pastor blames gays for Cape Town drought
Pastor Oscar Bougardt
Unrepentantly homophobic Cape Town pastor Oscar Bougardt is once again attacking the LGBTQ community, this time proclaiming that gays and lesbians are to blame for the city’s drought.
On Monday, Bougardt took to Facebook to expound his views on the pending disaster in the Mother City, which could see taps running dry in April.
He asserted that the drought was caused by God in judgment against the “perversion” of homosexuality.
“Blame ‘drought’ on wickedness and homosexuality and church leaders who fail to preach the Bible and sodomite abomination,” said Bougardt.
“I believe that this drought is God divine judgement over a City of Cape Town that has turned against God and accepted the lifestyle of sodomites as normal. Couple of years ago I predicted that God will strike all countries and city who chose pervertion instead of the holy ways of God with natural disasters, it is happening right here at home.
“This is just the beginning, turn to God and let all these reprobates burn in hell,” he said. “Cape Town is the capital sodomite city of the world and it leaders are wicket, do not be surprise more natural disasters coming.”
Bougardt also claimed that last year’s fires that ravaged Knysna – which hosts the annual Pink Loerie LGBTQ festival – were also God’s revenge for it being a “gay city”.
He added: “Homosexuality is an abomination. We suffer because our leaders has accepted wickedness as normal. More disasters to follow, turn back to God wicked people.”
Bougardt is facing charges of contempt of court for failing to uphold a 2014 court approved settlement with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) regarding his previous hate speech statements.
In it, he agreed to stop making discriminatory or hateful comments against the LGBTQ community. He also apologised and asked for forgiveness.
However, he soon after went back to attacking and demeaning LGBTQ people on social media and in the press, including making hateful comments on Mambaonline. Because he has blatantly failed to uphold the agreement, the SAHRC wants the pastor to be jailed for 30 days and fined R500,000.
In July 2017, Bougardt said that he “will never apologize for preaching God’s Word” and that “the SAHRC is being managed by a bunch of f*****s who are controlling them.”
The SAHRC is now waiting for the Equality Court to set a date for the proceedings.
Since at least 2011, Bougardt has conducted a vile campaign against the LGBTQ community, accusing gay people of being child molesters, of being sinful perverts and even appearing to call for their execution.
He has justified his hateful comments on the basis of his right to freedom of religion, stating that he is “Biblically mandated to preach against the homosexual lifestyle”.
Bougardt has aligned himself with American hate evangelist Steven Anderson; visiting him in the US, and promising to open branches of the banned preacher’s church in South Africa.
In December 2016, he told News24 “that 99% of the paedophiles have a homosexual background”. He then threatened to sue the site and other publications, including Mambaonline, for reporting this.
Update 24/01/2018: The post appears to have now been removed. Below is a screengrab.
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Considering that gay marriage, presumably the ultimate affront a country could make, has been legal in RSA for 11 years I’d say that his god has been sleeping on the job. Seems to me to be a long time to wait to smite people.
OR his god actually doesn’t care who we sleep with and this oke is barking up the wrong tree.
As far as I am concerned, who cares if I go to hell, there is most probably already air-conditioning??? On a more serious note, how many of this silly little man’s heterosexual flock can honestly say before the Lord, that they have not sinned. Is one sin greater than another? Is it for man to be judge of his fellow man? Christ taught us to lovr our neighbour as we do ourselves. With this in mind, the dear pastor should be pitied for hating the bi-sexuality or homosexuality within him that he seems to follow the path so anti-Christ in hating his neighbour and by so doing shows such intense loathing for himself.
This self-proclaimed homosexual, will hold this poor self-hating man in my prayers and pray with all my might that Christ will show him the light of tolerance and forgiveness.
The beloved pastor needs to repent and come out of the closet he will suffocate.
He is so ‘yesterdays news’. Ignore him and hopefully he will go away. The god he claims to worship and preach about is not the God of Love that I worship. Remember empty vessels make the most noise.
Pastor Bougardt,
I am not like you.
I didn’t choose to be gay, unlike you who chooses every day to be straight… right?
I know what it is like to be called moffie, queer, faggot, homo, abomination, sodomite, disgusting, sinner, spawn of the devil,… unlike you who is usually the one threatening me with the fires of hell.
I know what it is like to be kicked, punched, and shoved for being gay, unlike you who does the bullying from the pulpit.
I know what it is like to hide the bruises on my teenage body from my mom and dad, to save them from the suffering of seeing me like that, unlike you who fills these haters’ minds with reasons to punish and humiliate and hate me.
I know what it is like to lose a dream job because I’m gay, unlike you who fills employers’ minds with more ways to discrimiate against me.
I know what it is like to be groomed to feel shame for being gay, unlike you who should feel shame for making other human beings feel like shit.
You associate with the Pastor Andersons of this world, who call us paedophiles and want us stoned to death.
BUT, thank the Almighty, the tides are turning:
We are entering a new era in which society no longer relies blindly on its pastors to tell it what to do. Christianity is dying, and its YOUR fault, because you ignore science. You ignore modern values of equality and inclusivity, of respect and acceptance of the other.
PS: See you in hell!
Gosh you make me sick! You’re probably a closet homosexual! What about all the heterosexual people on Tik spawining children left, right and centre that they don’t care about and cannot afford??? The abuse and domestic violence nevermind sexual abuse on children by men?? You are evil, an idiot and no, you’re not a holy man! Nobody should have to listen to the krap that comes out your mouth! I know a lot of gay men that when it comes to goodness of heart and care for their adopted chilidren would put you to shame!
I’m not Gay, but please pastor go read the Bible again and not your translated version the old Bible before it was translated for nieve people to understand……Shame on you……
“wicket” and “perverton” hmmm. Perhaps his god can drop the rains over the approved homes (a la Exodus). Meanwhile the God of love and compassion just sees this as being separate from His word. And on another note what about the LGBTQI people who don’t engage in sodomy and the heterosexuals who do? Silly tosser.
Anyone want to help me buy toilet paper for this miserable man. Every time he speaks he should wipe his mouth with toilet paper as so much shit comes out of it.
It’s because of judges like you, people who say that they are preaching the Word of God and therby think they ARE God that God is punishing the entire SA, not just the Western Cape. There is only ONE judge, so get off your throne, you idiot.
Blame homosexuals for the drought? Where is his “God” that doesn’t bring rain then? maybe we should blame “pastor” for the drought as my doesn’t pray enough. He is sickening!!!! Why is he still a pastor? I would love to know. Does he still have people in his congregation?
Sodoma and Gomorrah story is ignored again
Oh yes your god decided that being gay is the worst thing in capetown, not the gangs, not the drugs, not the poverty and definetly not the drive by shooting killing children in school and streets, excuse my French but gluttony is also a sin you Fat Fcuk!! Crack a Book!
This man is nothing but a self-loathing closet case. Come out into the sun. It’s better here. No-one buys your holier-than-thou proselytizing style of preaching which is clearly designed to throw suspicion from yourself. You are externalizing and internal struggle. Stop it. Get over yourself. You’re pathetic.
Communist marxism is well and truly alive in SA
God help you ignorant fools
So women having 4 children with 4 different men is ok. Gang life styles of drugs, killings is ok. Rape of women nationally is OK, Children amougst drunk people is OK. Parents having sex in from of their kids is OK…. Because all of these happen with straight people so it makes ok. On this kak goes on here in Capetown. Stop with bigoted views. And you wonder why people hate God so much, God preaches love. It’s up to each individul to walk his own roud