South Africa: Justice ministry requests that ‘gay cure centre’ is investigated
The South African justice ministry has requested that the Human Rights Commission investigate a Chrisian arts centre which operates to attempt to “cure” people of their homosexuality.
Creare Training Centre in Bloemfontein boasts that it seeks to convert gay students into heterosexuals through “rehabilitation”.
The ministry released a statement today, which said that it was looking to the Human Rights Commission to investigate the centre, reports IOL news.
It read: “We trust the SA Human Rights Commission will be able to use its extensive powers to investigate this matter and to take the necessary and appropriate action,
“The notion that a person’s sexual orientation can be changed at will, or by compulsion, feeds the very same homophobic attitudes that encourage the criminal and abhorrent practice of so-called corrective rape.”
The centre’s founder, Cornelis van Heyningen, however, denied that the institution was discriminatory.
“We are catering for those who say ‘I want to change as a homosexual’. That’s not saying no homosexuals are allowed.”
He also compared the academy’s stance on homosexuality to a drug rehabilitation programme.
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