"This is a foreign action imposed on Africa," Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed told Reuters in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, where powerful Islamists control the south of the country. "This is not something that is indigenous to Africa, it is something that has come from abroad."

Sharif, I agree with you entirely.  Will I be seeing you converting from Islam soon, since it too is a foreign action imposed on Africa?  (Not that Christianity or the other major world religions are an option, since they suffer the same problem.)

(Quote from an M&G article on African reactions to the South African parliament passing a same-sex marriage^Wunion bill.)

the focus in this case falls on the intrinsic nature of marriage, and the question is whether any aspect of same-sex relationships justifies excluding gays and lesbians from it. What the Constitution asks in such a case is that we look beyond the unavoidable specificities of our condition - such as race, gender and sexual orientation - and consider our intrinsic human capacities and what they render possible for all of us. In this case, the question is whether the capacity for commitment, and the ability to love and nurture and honour and sustain, transcends the incidental fact of sexual orientation.

The Democratic Alliance would not take a stand as it was a moral issue, but spokesperson Tertius Delport was "surprised" by the ruling: "We expect different views and respect other views. But personally I think the idea of a male and a female forming the basis of a family is ingrained in the whole order of nature and even more so in the structures of our society. I for one was therefore surprised at the finding but this is something that we are not going to take up swords on."