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| Anti-gay protest in Paris, France, recently |
By Paul Arhewe
What will
the western world gain when the whole of Africa continent adopt an alien
culture of sodomy and gay life styles? Many advocates of anti-gay practices are
asking with fewer responses to this question. The fierceness in which western countries are
pushing for the adoption of gay practices in all parts of the world, especially
in cultures that abhor it, makes it looks as if the world’s existence depends
on a practice that is known to have sent many to their untimely graves. Homosexuals are known to be among those who
had first contracted the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which took
a rapid spread among same-sex partners. Initially, the terminal disease was referred
to as homosexual ailment, where it was called Gay-related immune deficiency
(GRID). Some commentators have argued that the move of the West remains
sinister, as they continue in pushing the wide recognition of gay lifestyle
when it brings no positive contribution to humankind and the society, but
diseases and deaths.
President
Goodluck Jonathan drew the annoyance of some western nations, recently, when he
signed the prohibition act against same-sex marriage in Nigeria.
Antagonists
of the anti-gay law have described it as obnoxious and draconian. Some Western
governments, including the United States and Britain say the enactment of the
law is a direct encroachment on the rights of gay people in Nigeria. The views
of these opponents are that the law will make the country a barbaric state and
relegate it to be slave to tradition, morality and religion.
In its
reaction recently, the Nigerian Federal Government said the Western nations are
playing double standard with their crying foul of the new law. The Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Viola Onwuliri, recently, in her trip to Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, told reporters that the president signed the bill into law as a way
of protecting Nigerians and democracy. She did not fail in adding that the
criticisms of the West are based on “double standards”.
