Here are some peculiar points to note in this matter...
Timing of the Protest against the Signing
The 13th hour timing is totally off. This bill has been on Nigeria’s Presidents table for months. Some of us have written and expressed our minds in relation to this topic, prior to his signing the bill.
Recently there was an initiation of legislation to punish so-called facebook activists. People responded promptly and prevented legislation moving forward in that case.
If Nigerians seriously opposed this anti-gay bill, we should likewise have moved forward firmly and strongly against the initial stages of it passing the senate and House before it got signed. Protests after the last minute are simply not serious.
These are Anti-Democratic Protests
For those who believe in our western styled democracy, the anti-gay bill got signed into law following due democratic process. Challenging it at the thirteenth hour questions our character and abidance with democratic process.
Nigerians love breaking and disobeying laws. Do we really believe in democracy or do we silently push for authoritarian rule? We voted in lawmakers, they proposed the bill, the house and senate who represent us overwhelmingly voted for the bill, this was passed to the President, who signed in the bill ‘we’ presented as represented by our representatives.
To challenge this bill will be to challenge the entire democratic process and system. I would go for that. I am interested in an entire review of the western democratic model we have adopted. It is however conflicting and disingenuous to pick on single items that are the direct consequence and product of the democratic system ‘we’ believe in, and demand the President single-handedly veto the best results.
Do we likewise wish him veto all majority senate and House choices?
Universal Human Rights?
What is that? Nations choose their rights as best applies to them or as is defined by religions. There is no such thing as universal rights. This is an illusion that usually starts from a 5 man lobby in a western country.
Are there rights for a single woman to marry two men if all consent? Are there rights for limitless polygamy? Are there rights of brothers marrying sisters or fathers daughters?
As odd as these might seem, these are ‘legitimate’ rights of consenting adults so long as religious boundaries and principles are not employed.
Marriage is a religious institution, owned and defined by the religions. It is not a natural or biological one. Incest is religious terminology and not scientific or biological restriction.
Adults can demand rights to incestual relationships. People who do not believe in God are actually demanding such rights.
Therefore rights must be determined by societies in keeping with their cultures and religions and what they can handle.
There is a limit to what Africa can handle and test.
So far, the societal health and herd social implication of long term, prevalent homosexual relationship is just being determined. How this impacts children, heterosexuals, the society at large.
The cost for utilities, etc…The cost of extra, third and fourth orientation bathrooms. Tasking healthcare costs being felt in the western world, secondary to the additional risks of MSM (Male-Sex-Male) anal sex.
Teaching little children new definitions of marriage, banning words like ‘mom’ and ‘dad,’ and the like, as is required and being instituted in true plurisexual societies.
These are complex equations the western world is just figuring out.
We must admit that the signing of this bill was a true dividend of democracy… at its best. I believe opposed Nigerians should respect the law and process of our ‘beloved’ democracy. Or be more honest and challenge democracy itself and the nations that constitute the larger Nigeria if those who wish Jonathan did not sign, desperately wish to have their revered ‘western universal laws,’ enforced in some new western culture nationettes, that reject the more popular African socio-culture.
This is my advice. Democracy did this, not Jonathan. This is not one case where we can throw jabs at Joe.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
Email: [email protected]
Recently there was an initiation of legislation to punish so-called facebook activists. People responded promptly and prevented legislation moving forward in that case.
If Nigerians seriously opposed this anti-gay bill, we should likewise have moved forward firmly and strongly against the initial stages of it passing the senate and House before it got signed. Protests after the last minute are simply not serious.
These are Anti-Democratic Protests
For those who believe in our western styled democracy, the anti-gay bill got signed into law following due democratic process. Challenging it at the thirteenth hour questions our character and abidance with democratic process.
Nigerians love breaking and disobeying laws. Do we really believe in democracy or do we silently push for authoritarian rule? We voted in lawmakers, they proposed the bill, the house and senate who represent us overwhelmingly voted for the bill, this was passed to the President, who signed in the bill ‘we’ presented as represented by our representatives.
To challenge this bill will be to challenge the entire democratic process and system. I would go for that. I am interested in an entire review of the western democratic model we have adopted. It is however conflicting and disingenuous to pick on single items that are the direct consequence and product of the democratic system ‘we’ believe in, and demand the President single-handedly veto the best results.
Do we likewise wish him veto all majority senate and House choices?
Universal Human Rights?
What is that? Nations choose their rights as best applies to them or as is defined by religions. There is no such thing as universal rights. This is an illusion that usually starts from a 5 man lobby in a western country.
Are there rights for a single woman to marry two men if all consent? Are there rights for limitless polygamy? Are there rights of brothers marrying sisters or fathers daughters?
As odd as these might seem, these are ‘legitimate’ rights of consenting adults so long as religious boundaries and principles are not employed.
Marriage is a religious institution, owned and defined by the religions. It is not a natural or biological one. Incest is religious terminology and not scientific or biological restriction.
Adults can demand rights to incestual relationships. People who do not believe in God are actually demanding such rights.
Therefore rights must be determined by societies in keeping with their cultures and religions and what they can handle.
There is a limit to what Africa can handle and test.
So far, the societal health and herd social implication of long term, prevalent homosexual relationship is just being determined. How this impacts children, heterosexuals, the society at large.
The cost for utilities, etc…The cost of extra, third and fourth orientation bathrooms. Tasking healthcare costs being felt in the western world, secondary to the additional risks of MSM (Male-Sex-Male) anal sex.
Teaching little children new definitions of marriage, banning words like ‘mom’ and ‘dad,’ and the like, as is required and being instituted in true plurisexual societies.
These are complex equations the western world is just figuring out.
We must admit that the signing of this bill was a true dividend of democracy… at its best. I believe opposed Nigerians should respect the law and process of our ‘beloved’ democracy. Or be more honest and challenge democracy itself and the nations that constitute the larger Nigeria if those who wish Jonathan did not sign, desperately wish to have their revered ‘western universal laws,’ enforced in some new western culture nationettes, that reject the more popular African socio-culture.
This is my advice. Democracy did this, not Jonathan. This is not one case where we can throw jabs at Joe.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @EveryNigerian
why is this law generating unnecessary heat, is it not the right thing that the government has done, why would a write thinking human being be having sex with its same sex; what animals could not do that's what human being are doing.
ReplyDeleteThis same white, i mean the western world that are passing this immoral act into law all in the name of human right, are they not the one that brought this Christianity that says it's wrong and immoral to practice such act or are we no longer reading our Bibles ? or should we not believe in it again ? if The whites does not believe in the bible they brought to us, tell me why we should believe them again ?Who do they think they are deceiving. Is it not politics which might take their eternity to where they dont expect or like that they are playing with people's lives.
Please my brothers and sisters lets not contest,nor oppose,nor challenge this law again please the act of homosexuality is an immoral act against man & God,if the act is right why are they not coming out in the open to practice it.
For the sake of God lets desist from this act please.
I greet you all.
Kings.
Abi o, just wonder what a child born through surrogacy or an adopted child will call his/her gay parents, will he/she refer them as "dad and dad" or "mum and mum"? . It's just abnormal, sickening and must be stopped forever. These gays are sick in their brains thus need serious rehabilitation.
ReplyDeleteWell written,all human right laws from the western countries cannot and will never work for africans.its foreign to us,any nigerian advocating/protesting for such in any foreign land should not bother to continue such protest because they can stay there why bother to come back.
ReplyDeleteGringo
Anyone who wants to practice gayism should jet out of Nigeria to elsewhere. End of discussion!
ReplyDeleteBembela
Oyinbo, na wa for u ooooooo!U asked us to wear coat under hot sun, we did! U said we should speak ur language, we foolishly dumped ours! U asked us to tie a rope round our necks like goats, we obeyed! U said our ladies should wear dead people's hair instead of the natural ones God gave to them, they obeyed. U said we should marry just one woman in the midst plenty damsels, we reluctantly obeyed! U said our decent gals should wear catapults instead of the conventional pants, they obeyed! Now u want our men to sleep with fellow men AND women with fellow women so that God would visit us like Sodom! Oyinbo, we say tufiakwa! If u like keep your aids. As Nigerians we say NO to GAY relationships n lesbianism
ReplyDeleteWel if i must say, r we sayin enfrigin on pple rit is gud? Wel in as much i wil not sopot d act of same sex bt i am sayin d punishment 4 it is grivious. Dia r many ways to kil a rat morova must it b sign in2 law? Gej do nt lok hw ds act of him might tak nigeria bk economically or socially. Wel dos dat r gays shud not continue bt stil we nid nt enfrige on pple rite in d name of religion or tradition. Cos God dat create ppl do nt fos ppl to serve him nor d trouser women r wearin 2dy a tradition in africa
ReplyDeleteWel if i must say, r we sayin enfrigin on pple rit is gud? Wel in as much i wil not sopot d act of same sex bt i am sayin d punishment 4 it is grivious. Dia r many ways to kil a rat morova must it b sign in2 law? Gej do nt lok hw ds act of him might tak nigeria bk economically or socially. Wel dos dat r gays shud not continue bt stil we nid nt enfrige on pple rite in d name of religion or tradition. Cos God dat create ppl do nt fos ppl to serve him nor d trouser women r wearin 2dy a tradition in africa
ReplyDeletethey want d world to end,but when god time no reach their is nothing dey can do,angels of devil and hell fire. ib sabi kpai
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