Honestly,
what is going on?? Why do people all of a sudden want to air their dirty
laundry in public? For weeks, I have been trying not to hear anything
concerning the Issue of homosexuality, a subject that have become sensitive to
many African nations most of them condemning it but it has been impossible. It’s
everywhere; on the Facebook, televisions, twitter, blogs and even telephones!! It
is not that I have never heard of homosexuality before or never seen a
gay man or lesbian woman. I have but for some reasons I chose not to pay much
attention to it because it is disgusting to think of a man having
sexual relationship with another man, or a woman with a woman.
The crazy thing about all this is
that, while homosexuality remains to be unacceptable to many African nations
few of African Icons have dared to come out of the closet to declaring their homosexuality
in public; and some have even dared to say they were born that way. Now, I don’t
know what gave them the courage to do so or why they think it is important for
them tell us about who they are attracted to but I think it must be one of the
two reasons I could think of; first, they themselves know it is unnatural and
they are indeed committing a crime against nature, against God (if they do
believe in God) and against the society that surround them and so they feel the
need to justify what they are doing (after all there is no need for
justification if what you are doing is the right thing). Secondly, since being
gay is something that is largely frowned upon, they feel the need to lie to the
society that they were born that way and that it is not their fault, so that
they don’t get blamed for bringing shame in to their families.
Before you start giving me
that-you-are-a-conservative kind of a look, let me remind you that for more than
a century scientist have conducted thousands of experiments trying to prove the
existence of a “gay gene” that in one way or another would have been blamed for
personal choices of being homosexuals with no success. You know why?? Because
the gene does not exist and you cannot find something that does not exist. For
those who believe in God, no matter which religion or congregation you belong
to the answer is simple; it’s Satan at work. But even if we put all the blame
on Satan, does not make it right?
The real question that I keep
asking myself is why do people choose to be gay? Yeah I said choose because to
me being gay is a choice otherwise how do you explain a man who has been straight
for more than 30 years of his life then all of a sudden turns into a gay?? How
would you explain a teenager who used to be straight with a girlfriend until he
found a sugar daddy who could give him all the money he wanted and suddenly he
became gay? Cynthia Nixon an actor in sex and the city once said “I’ve been
straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to
change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And
for me, it is a choice”. This is indeed another proof from the gay
community that being gay is a choice. So why do people choose wrong while we
can choose right? This is a question that am yet to find the answer.
While some gays try to justify
their behavior by saying they were born that way, that they have been gays all
their life, I have come across others who brag about turning straight
teenagers into gays (shocking). I know you are wondering how all this can be
possible but we all know if you are loaded with cash anything is possible. The
deception of our young and innocent children can start with a simple post Facebook as “I will pay someone 100,000Tsh to suck my nipples.” Sound
simple right?? But the more he pays this young boy the more he demands and before
you know it your son, brother, or cousin is a gay. He learns to
live a lie until the lie becomes his life then find the nerve to say he has
always been gay, that he was born that way... all because he succeeded to
convince himself that it was not his fault. Finally, when they have succeeded
to convince themselves they want to convince us to believe in what they believe
in. For me, that will never happen because the wrong will
always remain to be wrong even if everybody is doing it.
I have heard of fate being talked
of, I have heard of Satan being blamed for someone being gay, I have heard of
biological and psychological explanations but I think in the end we make our
own choices. How we live our lives is our own doing. The truth is even if gay
people can never stop being attracted to members of the same sex they can learn
not to act on their desires; we have all done it at one time or another. At
some point or another you have ever loved someone or something you could not
have and you had to learn not to act on your desires. A lot of people have
learned how to stop their addiction on drugs, smoking, alcohol and even sex
because it was the right thing to do. ... so why can’t they? Why do they fight
so hard to turn a moral wrong into civil rights?
I know that gay people think coming
out in the open makes them brave and all that but it does not. There are so
many ways to be brave in this world and sometimes it does not mean laying dawn
your life for something you believe to be bigger than your self... sometimes it
means nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain and the work of
everyday, the slow walk toward a better life for you and everyone around you.
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