Theantidesi [DK] notes with pride that South Africa, the land of his ancestors, has leapt ahead of the United States and Europe in granting equal rights to same-sex couples. The flip side, though, is that gays and lesbians in South Africa are still subject to violence and murder. And, yes, I lay some of that at the door of the religion that colonialism brought into Africa, since some African cultures prior to colonialism found ways of integrating same-sex orientation. Colonizers, on the other hand, severely punished indigenous people for same-sex activity.