User talk:Rebecca Melab Atitwa

I thought of writing a play,a poem or even a book on homosexuality but then remembered that I come from a country that demonizes this whole issue. I could probably be put behind bars for trying to sympathise with evil doers. Maybe they are right. The main question that is ever giving me sleepless nights is what's the main crime of being a homosexual. On what grounds is homosexuality a crime?

I am that staunch Christian who believes in the Holy Scriptures. Contrary to this, I wish to strongly stand with my homosexual brothers and sisters. They are human beings and misjudging them in itself is a sin to God. Matthew7:1 "Do not judge others,so that God will not judge you". So you are that God's represantative;a priest,pastor,bishop or whatever position you hold yet you are the first one to judge the homosexuals. I bet you shoul re-read your Bibles well.

You come up with another reason of degrading our traditional morals. That can be understood but which morals are those? Traditionally the aspect of love was well adhered to. What's the problem with homosexuals loving each other? Isn't that love? This same notion of upholding traditionalism is costing us many things as Africans. We lag behind in many developmental sectors just because we want to maintain our traditions. It is in the past where these homosexuals existed but could not come out to express themselves. Thanks to modernisation. Democracy!Democracy!Democracy! This is what I choose to do without interferring with the next person(my simple definition of democracy). Putting homosexuals behind bars in a "democratic society" is more draconic. Protection of the rights of the minority should be the key mandate of leaders in a democratic society rather than favouring the majority. One thing I find more shocking is our unending blames on the West. We keep blaming them yet we abandon our maternal homes for the West in the name of seeking for greener pastures. We keep struggling day and night trying to emulate the western culture and we still blame them. Homosexuals also face discrimination in the West but due to high level of knowledge on human rights, they are more protected. We deprive our brothers and sisters freedom of association, right to love and the freedom of expression. Just as I may choose to love Peter so let it be for Mercy to love Jane and Victor to love Amos. We should not make them lean on John or Nelly just to watch Whitney or Hillary from a distance. It is their RIGHT! LAW! This is another instrument used to humiliate the homosexuals. Isn't the same law that we use to deprive them of their rights that we also use to hide the rot in our society. The corruption that is killing our economy, the robbers,murderers,rapists and all other evil doers isn't the same law that defends them in Law courts? We sit back and do nothimg as the law is changed in favour of a few in our society yet go on roads with billboards and anti-homosexual movements just to protest the impementation of the rights of a minority group in our country. This is unfair to them and we should stop being inhumane to them. So will a father disown his son because he is gay? Should long time friends turn enemies because one of them confessed of being a homosexual? Ponder on that. I sum up by passing my sincere gratitudes to the United Nations for always standing up for the human rights and all humanitarian movements that always defend the minority groups like the homoseduals in our societys. Let's embrace the changes that come with modernity rather than criminalizing them.