Advocate Shameemah Salie, went on Newzroom Afrika to defend a party demand that gay and lesbian organisations be barred from any input into Parliament's revised White Paper on Families. Over thirteen minutes she described gay people as suffering from "an internal jihad", compared the country to Sodom and Gomorrah in the same breath as "the murders, the rapes", and closed by saying she had nothing against gay people "so long as they sit in the closet quietly." Al Jama-ah has since put Salie forward as its candidate for mayor of Cape Town. The city with the oldest Pride march in Africa is being asked to consider, for its highest office, a person who told its gay residents to be quiet. Her words are on tape, the party leadership endorsed them at the time, and nothing has been withdrawn since. They deserve a second reading.