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ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
Unlike children, gays and lbians do not have a special sectn the Bill of Rights voted to their rights. Gays and lbians are protected by the cln of sexual orientatn as one of the listed grounds on which unfair discrimatn may not take place. Gay rights might enjoy protectn even the absence of the specific reference to sexual orientatn.
But their explic mentng giv our Bill of Rights a special place the world: South Ai was the first untry to enshre gay rights s Constutn and, so dog, provi s cizens wh nstutnal protectn om discrimatn on the basis of their sexual orientatn. A number of cisns hand down by the Constutnal Court nfirm that this sectn prohibs the state om unfairly discrimatg agast gays and lbians. Natnal Coaln for Gay and Lbian Equaly and another v mister of jtice and others (read the judgment).
Sodomy laws crimalised the timate relatnships of a vulnerable mory group - gay men. The offenc - which did not nstute reasonable or jtifiable limatns on the rights of gay men to equaly, digny and privacy - were unnstutnal and valid.