Homosexuality

Govt must tighten screws on gays, lesbians
By Hon Mayanja Nkangi

Uganda is experiencing an internationally orchestrated Crescendo of demands for “rights” by the homosexual fraternity: male, lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transvestite.

Essentially these “rights” reduce to only one, namely, the absolute, non-negotiable, “right” to pursue and enjoy sexual pleasure man with man, woman with woman; with the bisexual exploiting the pleasures of both worlds, and the transgender covetting and securing the sexual pleasures which both God and his or her heterosexual parents never gave him or her.

The Transvestite is apparently ambivalent as to which sexual genus to firmly pursue, but fits himself or herself somehow. Thus this alleged right is pure sexual hedonism or the relentless pursuit of sexual pleasure for its own sake.

The gay claim to legitimise same sex unions or marriages is purely ancillary to the sexual pleasures and is merely an insurance or security for accessing and enjoying same sex sexual pleasures.
What is implicit here is a claim to the ‘right to sex’, and this should be readily conceded as a human right which is universally accepted by humanity.

However, the mode of sexual activity is itself a societal, rather than a human right and can only be sanctioned by the community in accordance with the moral cultural, religious, or legal norms of that particular community. Sodomy and lesbianism are modes or kinds of sex and are therefore subject to societal regulation by sanction or prohibition, in conformity with a community’s interests.

Astonishingly, the Ugandan gays and lesbians are claiming their sexual orientations as a ‘human right’ and are seeking to coerce Ugandans into stamping the national seal of approval on these weird practices. But for the majority of Ugandans this demand is uncompromisingly unacceptable. They could suffer the moral and cultural outrage silently, but asking them to applaud the sexual deviations goes against the grain. A right being an entitlement to own, possess, do or say something, or else, forbear, the homosexual fraternity maintain that they are entitled to sodomise natural men, and the lesbians to adopt masculine sexual postrues (whatever they do).

And their rationale for this? “Well, that is what we want and how we want it!” Wanting something is not a sufficient reason for a community or state to sanction it. The next demand could then be the decriminalisation of bestiality (sex with animals) or the laws against adultery or incest. The demand for homosexuality and lesbianism, and their related activities, must be firmly resisted on the ground that these practices violate the cultural, religious, moral, and legal norms of the country.

These people, being themselves the products or children of heterosexual unions, nevertheless pursue practices which rule out procreation, except for the bisexual. They are thus a sexually predatory group of citizens who pursue sexual pleasure without any social or moral conscience for the continuance and survival of Ugandans as a people.

Like the former King Louis XIV of France, their attitudes to this eventual weakening of the nation is “après nous le deluge!”: That is, after I have gone the catastrophe will come, but it will not affect me. The probability that the heterosexual Ugandans will always be there to replenish the country’s numbers does not absolve the homosexuals.

A citizen’s responsibility for the national interest cannot be shifted. Homosexuals, lesbians, and their cohorts are, in this respect, avowed libertines without regard for the national or public interest.
In any case heterosexual progeny or none, she would be a short sighted woman who raised chicken but allowed her neighbour to habitually steal the eggs! As presented by its crusaders the right, if it is one, to same-sex sexual relations and unions is self-evident and calls for no debate but only for recognition by everyone, especially the country’s government and Parliament, who must act and legitimise same sex marriages.

Homosexuality, lesbianism, and the like, are a morally corrupting influence on the youth. In other words, the national accounts of the homosexual fraternity are heavily overdrawn. Therefore the government and Parliament must maintain the legal screws on these unnatural habits which their possessors glorify as respectable orientations.

Uganda must not recognise, sanction, protect or promote sodomy or lesbianism by legislation or otherwise. And gay and lesbian practices are ill winds which blow nobody any good; not even themselves, if only they knew.

he practices are not rights as such but raw sexual appetites whose adverse effects on the Ugandan community must be erased lock, stock, and barrel.

The writer is former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs-Republic of Uganda