12 Reasons Why
the ACDP voted against the adoption on the South
African Constitution
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to join forces with the only Party that had the conviction to reject a Constitution
that undermines the value system that the overwhelming majority of all South
Africans, of all races, creeds and origins believe in.
The Constitutional
Assembly, contrary to their claims, swept under carpet, and therefore, ignored
public submissions on important issues like the preamble and moral issues. Millions
of taxpayers money was used to finance a propaganda campaign that deceived
the public into believing that their opinions would be counted in the constitution
making process. The truth is, they were ignored. The ACDP had no choice but
to come against a process (and its product) that did not promote a transparent
democracy but autocracy in its worse form.
The majority of
South Africans who made submissions on the preamble wanted the words "In
humble submission to Almighty God" to be inserted at the beginning of the
preamble, but the communists and atheists in the Constitutional Assembly (who
are in the minority in the Country), rejected the requests.
- Section 2 attempts
to subject Gods law to man-made laws.
The ACDP rejects
the supremacy of the South African Constitution over Gods law. Psalm
33:4 says the Word of the Lord is right and true". That which
is "right and true" cannot be subjected to a rushed constitution
drafted by mortal and fallible men and women.
- The ACDP rejects
the horizontal application of the equality clause in Chapter 2 of the Bill
of rights. We do not want Gays and s who are protected by the "
orientation" clause in subsection 9(3) to be imposed on us. We want the
right not to employ them, if we so wish, and not to have them teach our children
their immoral, unnatural and sinful lifestyles.
- We find Section
11 incomplete, because it gives criminals the right to life, while it does
not explicitly guarantee the rights of unborn children. The ACDP submission
to the Constitutional Assembly on "THE RIGHT TO LIFE" specified
that "everyone has the right to life from the moment of conception to
natural death". Our input was rejected. Subsection 11(5) is a complete
departure from the accepted notion of innocent until proven guilty. Equally
so, subsection 16(1)(d), where it refers to "freedom of scientific research",
may be used to justify vile misdeeds of science, taking into account, for
example, President Clintons controversial decision to legalise experiments
on living aborted babies.
- The right to
" make decisions concerning reproduction", and the right to "security
in" and "control over their body" in respectively subsections
12(a) and (b) of the South African Constitution, essentially allows for the
legislation of abortion on demand. The ACDP rejects this attempt to license
the slaughter of innocent and defenceless children.
- We reject State
interference in religious observances in state or state-aided institutions
(schools) as stated in subsection 15(2)(a). This right should be controlled
by parents and the community, not by the State.
- The ACDP rejects
the clause "freedom of artistic creativity" in subsection 16(1)(c),
as it protects .
- At face value,
Section 22 seems acceptable, until you realise that the right to choose an
occupation includes the rights to prostitution. The ACDP totally rejects any
form of commercialised sex. It is a cancer that destroys families.
- Section 25 and
its principle of ownership of private property is effectively diminished and
counteracted through a vague and unnecessary provision. All the safeguards
may be overridden, provided that these legislative and other measures be reasonable
and justifiable (and not even necessary) in order to bring about land reform
or equitable access to natural resources (i.e. the underground water supply,
food sources etc.)
- Subsection 27(1)(a)
grants everyone the right to reproductive health care services, which include
abortion clinics. We reject exposing present and future generations to abortion
slaughter-houses.
- Section 29(2)
denies tax-paying parents State subsidies if they choose to take their children
to private educational institutions.
- Section 30 and
31, that relates to community aspects of language, culture and religion, state
that these rights, may not be exercised in a manner inconsistent with any
provision of the Bill of Rights. These rights are the cornerstone of family
life, yet unequal to the rest of the rights concerned.
- The limitations
clause, a vital clause in the application of the second Chapter, states that
legislation that is reasonable and justifiable in an open and democratic society
may limit any or all the rights. The element of necessity of such a limitation
is not even mentioned.