As if Kenya needed more hate
What you need to know:
- I agree that statutory rape, whether homosexual or heterosexual, is wrong. Any form of abuse is wrong, including the abuse of human rights, which is what this Bill is encouraging.
- If you have a problem with homosexuality on a Christian level, you should have a problem with a lot of other things as well.
Last week’s Saturday Nation carried an article on a draft Bill that proposes harsh penalties against gays.
Harsh is an understatement.
According to the article, the draft Bill "presented alongside a petition by the party’s legal secretary Edward Onwong’a Nyakeriga provides for the offence of sodomy, which would earn life imprisonment."
I read this trying to figure out if it was a joke. The Bill proposes "death by stoning in public for any foreigner who commits a homosexual act and a [sic] life imprisonment for Kenyan nationals found guilty."
What nonsense is this? Stoning in public? What year is this, 2 BC?
How do they propose this happens, exactly? Are we supposed to have a commission specifically for stoning gays? Will there be a designated area for the deed?
Will we create more jobs, including for the person who wipes the blood off the floor from shattered heads (but not the blood on our hands)?
What if the gay man is your brother? Will you stone him? What about your child?
HOMOPHOBIC SOCIETY
Maybe we should do the stoning on a volunteer basis — first come, first served, first stoned. Can you imagine the announcements?
"Anyone interested in today’s stoning of illegal homosexuals, kindly register below."
The sad thing is that the list would actually be filled. The truth — and this has not always been the truth — is that we are, unfortunately a homophobic country. We hate gays.
For various reasons — it is un-African (it isn’t, Africans have been homosexual for ages before the evil white man brought his so-called foreign ways to us; if anything, it’s Christianity that is un-African).
Another is that it is not Christian (which most sins committed by the people passing these Bills in government aren’t as well) or it’s unnatural (despite the several examples in the animal kingdom that beg to differ).
‘Anyone found guilty of aggravated homosexuality would also be stoned to death in public. Aggravated homosexuality in this case would include committing the acts with people below 18 years, if the offender is a person living with HIV, if those persons committing the act are persons in authority over their victims, serial offenders and where a victim is a person with a disability.’
I agree that statutory rape, whether homosexual or heterosexual, is wrong. Any form of abuse is wrong, including the abuse of human rights, which is what this Bill is encouraging.
CORRUPTION AND ADULTERY
You cannot stone people, period. It is wrong. You cannot stone people for who they choose to have sex with, because it is wrong. Consenting adults choose who they have sex with.
If you have a problem with homosexuality on a Christian level, you should have a problem with a lot of other things as well.
You should have a problem with corruption and adultery (which is rampant in Kenya) and drunkenness (also gloriously rampant, more so than man-on-man action).
I have been called a gay advocate before, but they used the wrong term. I am an advocate for humanity. I am an advocate for human rights.
Can you really blame me for not wanting the sight of bloodied forms strewn around the city with people chanting hateful, ignorant things around them?
MISPLACED PRIORITIES, ONCE AGAIN
Apparently, some MPs "formed the caucus in February and declared an uncompromising onslaught on homosexuality in Kenya."
How about an uncompromising onslaught on terrorism and lack of civic education so that we don’t vote these idiots with misplaced priorities back into office?
As if Kenya needs more hate.
Twitter: @AbigailArunga
