The gay brigade is here!

The contentious topic has been here for sometime where the Senate President, Senator David Mark  said   there was no going back on criminalising same sex marriage in Nigeria in answer to some Western countries’ pressure.  This is particularly to the Britain that threatened to withhold aid from countries that did not recognise gay rights. Nigeria’s […]

The contentious topic has been here for sometime where the Senate President, Senator David Mark  said   there was no going back on criminalising same sex marriage in Nigeria in answer to some Western countries’ pressure.  This is particularly to the Britain that threatened to withhold aid from countries that did not recognise gay rights.
Nigeria’s Senate in November 2011 approved the bill that would make same-sex marriage punishable by 14 years imprisonment for gay couples and 10 for anyone abetting such unions.
 “We will not compromise on this. There are many good values we can copy from other societies but certainly not this one,” he said.
The Senate President also said Nigeria has got to “prove to the rest of the world, who are advocates of this unnatural way that we Nigerians promote and respect sanity, morality and humanity.”
Last month the Minister of Foreign Affairs  Olugbenga Ashiru in a session with the diplomatic corp, told the ambassadors  to tell their countries not to impose their values on Nigeria, as the country is under pressure to recognise gay rights.
“We don’t tell other countries how to live their lives. We don’t impose values on any country. Other countries too should not come and impose their own values on us. We don’t oppose any country that has put in its constitution the gay rights to allow two men or two women to marry themselves. But for Nigeria and a number of other African countries; it is not part of our culture yet.’’
He said it was hypocrisy for the United States to be championing gay rights  while criminalising polygamy which is part of Africa’s culture and tradition.
When Britain  legalised gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval, I foresaw the pressure to legalise it in Nigeria and other African countries mounting.
In fact the British Prime Minister, David Cameron said he wanted his ministers and officials who worked on the bill  to legalise gay marriage in Britain to work on other countries to also pass similar law.
“There’s a lot more work to be done as Britain in the Commonwealth, talking to our Commonwealth partners about decriminalising homosexuality in various countries,” he said.
Yet, also last month the United Nation unveiled ‘Free and Equal’  campaign to  promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and  transgender (LGBT) rights in South Africa with a focus on the need for both legal reforms and public education to “ counter homophobia and transphobia.”
Unveiling the new campaign, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stressed that such discrimination –“sometimes leading to physical assault, sexual violence and targeted killings – is a violation of basic human rights.”
Therefore when few days ago I watched a Nigerian woman in one of those TV talk shows on gay rights being adamant that nobody should dictate to her how to live her life, I was not all that surprised. This is how bad things have become. Though it was not clear whether the woman would be a ‘woman’ or the ‘man’ in her lesbian relationship.
It seems those Western countries that have abandoned their religion, some even don’t believe in God, are determined to make the whole world ‘sink’ with them.
They don’t care that we believe in our religion and have our culture, their ‘religion’ is human rights and everybody must be converted.
As such, the more parents instill religious and moral values in their children, the better for us. Everybody should be made to see homosexuality and lesbianism for what they are; a sin before God and against everything we believe in and if those that want to impose it on us feel differently, it is too bad.