My Take On Homosexuality

I have never really interacted with a gay person, I think the closest that I have come to a gay person is the lipstick lesbians in high school. I don’t know if they count. I don’t know much about gay people but I believe that we should accord them full human rights .

I believe that everyone should love whomever they please and if it is sex they can have sex with whomever they please unless its forced, a child, animal or dead person (Super gross)So why am I writing an articles about Homosexuals. Well a super preposterous law dubbed “Kill the Gays bill” was passed by Ugandan parliament to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts which includes life imprisonment in some cases. The anti-homosexuality bill also makes it criminal not to report gay people and you could spend time in jail for that
The MP behind the bill, David Bahati, told the AFP news agency: “This is victory for Uganda. I am glad the parliament has voted against evil.”(Really?)

He then continued to add
“Because we are a God-fearing nation, we value life in a holistic way. It is because of those values that members of parliament passed this bill regardless of what the outside world thinks,” he said

Foreigners are not also spared; you cannot be gay and proud in Uganda thanks to the existing anti-homosexuality laws. A retired British man is awaiting trial in Entebbe on charges of possessing a gay sex video after thieves found images on his laptop. If found guilty he could spend two years behind bars. What is funny is that instead of punishing those who stole his lap[top,they are punishing him for having what they call inappropriate material in his STOLEN  laptop.

Well before we point fingers at Uganda we in Kenya are also guilty, I have seen people condemn gay people for being gay,some have even received threats while others such as Joji Baro are targeted on social media for being gay.

We here at Ghafla have often been accused of promoting “sin”, pushing the Gay Agenda and also gay-bashing (How is it even possible to do both?)

And no we are not gay neither do we gay bash, we  just believe in live and let live, if no one is pushing their sexuality on me/us on anyone for that matter, I think we should just let people be. It shouldn’t bother us .Let God be the judge for we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. We do a lot of sin that the Bible condemns and yet we slam other people because we sin differently? Come on people!And before you open your bibles and read to me a few verses about how the Lord abhors homosexuality I will let you know that the same bible condemns judging.

This is what it says Matthew 7:1-5
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

And I am not trying to push the gay agenda on anyone, I just think we should practice tolerance, be more accepting and judge less. And no I’m not gay. I am straight. And to quote Nali Sharon “I have my preference, but mine is not superior to anyone’s. Nor is it a standard to measure everyone by”

Addditional reporting by BBC