Things turn nasty after Khaya Mthethwa’s ‘gay’ tweet

It’s a sensitive time to be asking possibly uninformed questions about homosexuality after the Grace Bible Church debacle, but Idols winner Khaya Mthethwa on Friday dived into the subject anyway.

He was curious to know if women would date a straight guy “who was gay”. It seems innocent enough, except his followers detected something amiss in his logic: he assumes that gay people can simply turn straight.

Here are some of the responses:

Twitter user @King_Alu, however, tweeted something to suggest Mthethwa knew something most us do not know:

Here he is, about to go in for the kill:

And then:

Khaya Mthethwa has been romantically linked to actress Nomzamo Mbatha, and he reportedly stalled lobola for his partner, TV personality Jessica Nkosi, last year, and the two eventually broke up before they could make it to the altar.

Some of the singer’s followers did take his question seriously though: