In the interest of full disclosure, let me be clear : I am a born again, tongue talking, halleluia shouting, bible believing, faith living and word teaching christian. Totally unapologetic about it tooo! I do not understand or approve of homosexuality in any way, shape or form.
Having said that, I have a little problem with this criminalizing business. I have issues with it because of the hypocrisy involved. Are we saying that homosexuality is conceptually worse than adultery or fornication? Worse than child marriage? Worse than polygamy? We do not criminalize any of those things. Some of them we wink at, some we tolerate, some we actively encourage, but nobody goes to jail for any of those things. So why throw people in jail for homosexuality? Most of those casting stones are sexual perverts themselves - sleeping with their secretaries and househelps, molesting minors under their care! Does anyone remember the case of the woman who was supposed to be stoned to death for adultery in Northern Nigeria a few years ago? Whole bunch of articles about the case here to refresh your memory. Well in that case, only the woman was prosecuted - did she commit adultery by herself? And yet in that same culture, marriage of kids aged as young as 9, 10, 11 years is actively advocated and encouraged. Don't even get me started on this child marriage/child abuse of a thing - its another topic for another day. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of it all.
When it comes to this topic, this is my attitude - let him/her who is without sexual sin cast the first stone. If you are fornicating, hooking up with people at the club, engaging in one night stands, sleeping with somebody else's husband or wife, sleeping with the gardener, or the housegirl, generally expressing your sexual freedom,then please stop talking about homosexuality - because you are no better. Yes I said it. Thou art not better!!
In the US where they have figures, the statistics on sexuality are staggering. Over 90 percent of the population, christian or not, fornicate. Adultery is commonplace now. Most men, christian or not, watch porn. I believe that human beings are fundamentally the same, and the figures are not much different wherever you go - including our deceptively "conservative" African society.
What I am trying to say is this " Excuse me, there is a log in your eye! Abeg remove am before seeing the speck in ya gay brother's eye.
We act like there is a hierachy of sexual sin - that GOD overlooks fornication, while reserving all his rage for homosexuals. Fa fa fa foul!! Its all the same.
So, to answer the question - how should be as a matter of policy treat homosexuals, I say, how do you treat fornicators? When your dad was sleeping with his secretary, how did you treat him? How did you treat yourself, after that hot night of unbridled passion with that person you should not have been with? There you have your answer.
Do not be a hypocrite. That is why JESUS fought the pharisees so violently. Hypocrisy. He called them whitewashed sepulchers, clean on the outside, nasty on the inside. Hypocrites, judging others for the sins they themselves committed with relish.
Our policy as a society must be consistent. You do not go after one set of people just because they are soft targets. If we are going to criminalize illegal sexual activity, then start with the most rampant - fornication.
To close, a few days ago, Jon Stewart, one of my fav comedians, was speaking on this very issue. Dude is a hard core liberal proponent of gay rights, and all that, but I cannot deny truth when I see it. And he was speaking truth. The good stuff on Marion Barry is towards the end so don't give up in the first two minutes.
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I liked the way he put it - oblivious to our own reality!! The guy called himself moral - and with a straight face too! We need to fight these moral battles, true, but we need to fight them all - equally. We need to fight from a position of truth and power, not of blatant hypocrisy!! Please do not be a whitewashed sepulcher. The opponent is not stupid. They will tear you apart. Remember Carrie Prejean, Miss California? See all the stuff that came out about her when she spoke out against gay marriage? Her nude pictures, her fake breasts, etc, etc? They totally tore into her. It is a lesson for us all.
As always, comments are welcome.
Thankies.
Oh, and if you are wondering what happened to Bisi Alimi, there is a wiki page on him here. Will be praying for this dude.
Homosexuality and works of the flesh like adultery, fornication, polygamy (selfishness) etc, are not in the same class. While the latter group may ask and receive forgiveness for their sins, the homosexuals need more than forgiveness - they need deliverance.
ReplyDeleteWhat is instinctive and common to humans about homosexuality? So homosexuality is a natural disorder!
I think that is a simplistic view of this matter. There are lots of things that heterosexuals do sexually that also require deliverance - abi u never hear of people needing therapy for sex addiction? I do not see a conceptual difference between the two - bad sexual habit is bad sexual habit, regardless of whom u are doing it with!!
ReplyDeleteHolyebony:
ReplyDeleteDo you think or believe that sexual orientation is a choice made by humans?
Hi Anon,
ReplyDeletethe short answer to your question is I don't know. The longer answer is for some is a choice, and for others, it could be something they were born with.
The real long answer is: That is going to be part III of this series, so stay tuned!!
On the one hand, we have the Lady who is as Ebony as she is Holy (ain't that unique!), who as a born-again, tongue-talking, halleluia-shouting, bible-believing, faith-living and word-teaching christian, does "not approve" of nor care to understand homosexuality.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, she is against it.
On the other hand, we have the Marion Barrys out there, who like Holy Ebony, would proclaim to be born-again, tongue-talking, halleluia-shouting, bible-believing, faith-living and word-teaching christians as well.
They, too, are against homosexuality.
Pray, tell, what is the difference between the two camps? Oh wait let me guess: HolyEbony isn't a sinner like Marion Barry? No, wait: Marion Barry's kind of sins are more egregious than they type HolyEbony commits?
No, no, noooo, wait: HolyEbony does not sin, and as such, can be against Homosexualism, unlike the likes of Marion Berry!
Ah, BRILLIANT! LUV IT! :)
Hiya Anon!! Wassup.
ReplyDeleteYou accusing me of self righteousness? I actually did not think of it that way. But now that you mention it.........!
That was not my intention actually, its just that Christians are by definition against homosexuality. It is what it is. However, I am plotting a part 3 of this series and will deal with this a little more.
But thanks for pointing that out. I need to be careful not to come across as self righteous. It would be most counterproductive.
Thanks for stopping by.
No I am not accusing you of self-righteousness Holyebony. At least not yet. Let's just say I am playing "Spot the Difference" between the two cases I highlighted above.
ReplyDeleteStill, I am curious about your proclamation that christians "are by definition against homosexuality". And this is besides the fact that Marion Barry, going by your expressed position, has a right to be against homosexuality as a self-identified christian.
But I prefer to focus on the former for now: if christians are indeed against homosexuality by definition, what happens in the case of the born-again, tongue-talking, halleluia-shouting, bible-believing, faith-living and word-teaching christian who is inherently or naturally gay?
Or is it impossible to be Gay and Christian at the same time? And, also, are gay people destined for hell simply by the virtue of their being gay? So many questions I know, but such is the case with these issues. I guess we'd just wait for your part 3.