GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Why is the DA associating with Angus Buchan?
DA leader Mmusi Maimane has a populist streak and if you want to play that card in SA, religion is as good a place as any to start
SA is generally a religious, conservative country and Christian evangelist Angus Buchan, like many others, is a product of that environment. Nevertheless, while his views are no doubt heartfelt and widely shared, from a constitutional perspective many of them are at odds with our democratic culture and thus are problematic. "I cannot ever agree that homosexuality is right," Buchan said in 2008. "I love them, though, but they need help." He argued that prayer was the answer ("We have prayed for them and God has changed their hearts.") Basically, he believes homosexuality is a sin and prayer can cure it. He has other, more generally conservative and misogynist views (Analysis: The Gospel According To Angus Buchan), too. He argues, for example, that a woman’s place is in the home, sex needs to be regulated and pornography outlawed. With regard to politics, he wants SA to become a Christian theocracy where God’s word is law, as it is written in the Bible, which he describes as "nonnegot...
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