{"id":207292,"date":"2025-09-16T06:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-in-mostly-christian-namibia-same-sex-rights-face-barriers-but-not-necessarily-from-religion\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:45:51","slug":"namibia-in-mostly-christian-namibia-same-sex-rights-face-barriers-but-not-necessarily-from-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-in-mostly-christian-namibia-same-sex-rights-face-barriers-but-not-necessarily-from-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: In Mostly Christian Namibia, Same-Sex Rights Face Barriers, but Not Necessarily From Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Majority of citizens express tolerance but oppose equal rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than half (51%) of Namibians say they would &#8220;somewhat like&#8221; or &#8220;strongly like&#8221; it or &#8220;would not care&#8221; if their neighbours were homosexual. o Across 36 African countries surveyed, Namibia ranks as the fourth-most-tolerant, behind Cabo Verde (73%), Seychelles (71%), and South Africa (66%).<\/li>\n<li>But almost six in 10 citizens (58%) say they would reject a friend or family member who was attracted to people of the same&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150418.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority of citizens express tolerance but oppose equal rights. Key findings More than half (51%) of Namibians say they would &#8220;somewhat like&#8221; or &#8220;strongly like&#8221; it or &#8220;would not care&#8221; if their neighbours were homosexual. o Across 36 African countries surveyed, Namibia ranks as the fourth-most-tolerant, behind Cabo Verde (73%), Seychelles (71%), and South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6894,464,7127,4706,724,52352,257,16846,5100,26257,254],"class_list":["post-207292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barriers","tag-christian","tag-face","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-necessarily","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-rights","tag-samesex","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}