Three days ago, I posted on my WhatsApp status “If I were a homosexual and they give me the “who should procreate for you to come and adopt argument”, I’d respond, “you heterosexuals have kids you’re unable to take care of, you abandon them, some are on the streets, some in orphanages, others a place of nowhere, then there’s also the death factor”.I as a homosexual, is solving the problem you create by procreating. See? I’m even entrepreneurial in my sexuality. where is my medal?”
A few people on my list weren’t having it aaaaall. Lol. Why would Joanna come and post this? Is she supporting gays? Joanna please this is a no no no no……Then there was the supporting squad too.
Since the common language Ghanaians are speaking on this whole gay issue is either Christian or Muslim, let’s speak Christian, that’s what I understand.
I think more times we Christians tend to forget or don’t know that Ghana is NOT a Christian country, we only have majority christians. Wait, does that not make us a Christian country? No.
To say a country is Christian or Islamic or X religion makes them theocratic. In a theocracy, the people are officially ruled by the tenets of a particular religion and there may be zero tolerance for the free and open practice of other religions. Theocratic leaders come into power by “divine selection” as opposed to how you give power to the NDC and NPP. For instance, if Ghana were an Islamic state, it’d be LAW for all females to be veiled. Theocracies were common in ancient civilisations than now, talk of the biblical Israel for example. Today the few theocracies we have are Islamic states; Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran etc, and the only Christian theocracy I know of is the Vatican city ruled by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
Since Ghana isn’t a theocratic state, it will be unjust to criminalise gays based on our Christian and Islamic beliefs. The same is true for our cultural and ethnic values because people are still individuals even when they belong to sects.
“Homosexuality is sin” “homosexuality is wrong in the eyes of God” “remember sodom and Gomorrah”. These are the Christian arguments I hear.
Brethen in the Lord, what’s not sin? Why aren’t we passing an anti-pre-marital sex bill? Why aren’t you and I in collaboration with our MPs and Pastors and Chiefs passing an anti-marital cheating bill? Isn’t it sexual sin we’re coming against?
You see when you’re in the dark (or maybe you’re the type who loves it with lights) having consensual sex with your partner of the opposite sex, “nobody is affected”, it’s same with two gays.
We say we are promoting Ghanaian family values, don’t families value premarital abstinence? Don’t families value marital fidelity? Why is no one proposing a bill to promote these Ghanaian family values too?
Is it okay for me to say we are being hypocrites?
“oooo these gays have anal sex which affects their health!” “anal sex increases the risks of STIs”.
Lol, so you care about them more than they do themselves? You don’t think they know the side effects of anal sex? and oh, did you know there are heterosexuals who have anal sex too? “Aaane mmarima bi di mmaa trumu”.So It’s not only a gay issue.
And, the sex life of homosexuals is not limited to only anal penetration for men, homosexuals kiss, cuddle, masturbate, do head and hand, something you also do as heterosexuals.
Now let’s talk about the Sodom and Gomorrah reference, scriptures never said Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed for homosexuality! But what’s widespread? Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed for homosexuality. That’s exactly how scriptures are misquoted in Christiandom and the Christian masses especially in Ghana here, have believed and are living something scriptures never said or a misinterpreted version of what it says.
Ezekiel 16 : 48 – 49 NIV reads “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
49. Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
See?
Now hear me out please, I’m not here necessarily calling anything good or right or valid, I’m saying that, I do not have the self moral audacity or any other audacity there is to support a bill which seeks to criminalise what two adults willingly decide to sexually do with each other or even speak against them, bill aside.
I’m saying if the state wants to regulate people’s sexual life, they may want to start by proposing a teenage pregnancy bill or something in response to the media reports that Ghana has recorded over half a million teenage pregnancies over the past 5years. Something homosexuals don’t have a hand in.
The anti-gay bill if passed would jail for up to five or ten years people who identify as lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, transsexual, queer, pansexual or non-binary(a person who doesn’t identify as Male or female) or advocate for gay rights. We are the same Ghanaians who call “effeminate” men “obaabarima” or “kojo basia” translated “man-woman”, does that not for instance “validate” bisexuality or such a person identifying as non binary?
Then there’s this frail argument, “fine, let’s not criminalise murderers, armed robbers, rapists and paedophiles too”.
You see, always remember the word “CONSENT” okay?, in murder, robbery and sexual abuse, someone is getting harmed, there. is. a. victim. okay? People do not grant that they be sexually abused, robbed or murdered. With homosexuality, it’s two thinking consenting adults. You dig?
Now even if, even o, even if at worst, gay marriages won’t get religiously, culturally and legally recognized in Ghana, dare anyone jail them? Or physically abuse them?
You know what affects you and I? Our poor health system which wont spare your life because you are heterosexual, The bad roads which can kill you and your lover who aren’t homosexuals, our inept educational system which is wasting our time, energy and capabilities, the never ending corrupt and misanthropic governments we’ve had and have, the list goes on.
Would you please get your Pastor, Church, Chief and Mps as well as yourself to take action against these too? Or that’s not sin in the eyes of Lord?
A.J Kwame
P.S : Just for the records, I’m straight, straight like some hard joysticks : – )
And here’s an article that clarifies the Sodom and Gomorrah myth
https://www.news24.com/news24/xarchive/voices/the-story-of-sodom-and-gomorrah-was-not-about-homosexuality-20180719
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