May the Holy Ghost Fire Burn All Homos-Philip Muhizi Langat

In the beginning God created Adam and Eve, not Bob and Job. His intention was to make this two, one through a union called marriage. Unfortunately enough, this union may not stand the test of time thanks to gay rights movement. Today people have tended to agree with EVIL and make excuses for it while it steals our very soul. They have so lost touch with reality that fantasy is their reality. They have let devilish passion, misplaced desires and forces of lust consume their very own being. Now they hide under the blanket of democracy and the philosophy of “born this way” or “live and let live”.

I believe the gay rights movement is one of the last remaining puzzles in the civil rights movement. I have long supported the right to self determination and privacy. Perhaps because of my liberal leanings, I have supported the rights of the special, the marginalized the underprivileged and even the Ogiek. I have debated within the four walls of my hostel in the University of Nairobi, in the lecture halls, in my place of work, on my Facebook wall and even with my siblings. I have encountered mild and violent opposition to my stance.

I have been commended by some and brandished by others as an agent of the devil. Through my short 23 years on earth, I have always hoped to live up to my larger ideals and values. The ideals of justice, fairness and equity; that democracy isn’t just what the majority insists upon, central to its structure is a protection of the minority from the majority and a guard against the passions of the times. However, I have never agreed that homosexuals are a minority group of people or better still, a group of individuals whose identity can be defined as gay. It is not like being black or Jew, Kenyan or Nigerian English or Kalenjin, NO.

When we talk of a group of people whether majority or minority, we talk of a group that bears identity. But being gay cannot constitute identity. Homosexuality is not an identity or class; it’s a behavior. Homosexuals are not a class of people any more than heterosexuals are a class of people. We are males and females, not gays and straights. In other words, we are males and females by anatomy, but gays and straights by behavior. Therefore, homosexuality has got much to do with desire; abominable desire to be precise.

And so I ask, why not classify people by their desires as homosexual activists demand? Because if we start to classify people by what they desire to do sexually, then why not give people with all sexual desires special marriage rights? Or why not allow sado masochists, bestiality lovers or pedophiles be? Once we allow same-sex marriage, then on what legal or moral basis will you stop me if I want to marry my biological sister, and we are both consenting adults? Some homosexuality crusaders like Chimamanda Ngozi, Elton John and Binyavanga Wainaina have claimed that being gay is a naturally occurring phenomenon (remember the naturally occurring types of rocks in geography? haha), that it is not a choice, that it is something that we are born with, something that is beyond our control.
 Well I agree that some males can be born naturally effeminate and some females born with male-like tendencies. It is also true that people can be born with incessant bed-wetting tendencies. In both cases it is not the person’s fault that he/she was born that way. However, it becomes irresponsibility on the side of that person to celebrate these tendencies and ask to be allowed exploit the negative sides of the condition instead of seeking medical or psychological support to regain a normal sexual identity. It is also irresponsible to term homosexuality as natural. You are either born male or female; otherwise you are a special case that needs special attention. In that regard homosexuals owe to be classified in the same category as retards and psychos whose problem is best solved in hospitals and not in civil rights activism.
 A candid quote from the prolific writer and philosopher Thomas Hobbes reminds me that "men are innately born to be brutal, boorish, with potentials of devilment". It is therefore the responsibility of a society to tailor and legislate ones character especially the excesses so that they fit into their immediate niche because no one is born fully made. Condemning homosexuality is one such step. Remember a society is a product of social contract whereby we give up certain rights in return of certain privilege and as such; every society has a code of conduct. Anyone who treads the line by rebelling such codes is committing a crime. Homosexuals are therefore criminals because their tendencies are in total contrast with the societal norms and codes.
Apparently Kenyans are sitting on the fence with regard to this thorny issue. Some are in support while some like me are not. When we fail to expressly condemn something then we impliedly agree to it. That’s the Kenyan position. A very worrying position that may paint us as a nation that is submissive to the west and subservient to the western Ideals. And that reminds me..who said the west is a benchmark with  which to measure our lifestyles? Who said the western definition of democracy is the right one. I don’t want to go into this for it deserves a whole chapter of its own. The fact that we have gays and lesbian foundations in Kenya is reason enough to conclude that Kenya has not come out strongly to declare their stand. Even the clergy whom we expect to be the moral compass in the society seem to be entangled in this issue. They care less and some are even crusaders of this unjust cause.
Biblically, unnatural acts like what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah were severely dealt with by the highest and mightiest authority(Jehovah).The wrath of God is countless times severe than inflation. They say...in the metaphysical realm, choices have consequences but in the spiritual realm the consequences are even dire and that they are better imagined than experienced. Those who do not believe in the bible may condemn me as unnecessarily magnifying the Bible, but the truth is that homosexuality has no place in the kingdom of his majesty the lord of lords, Jehovah Ttsidekenu. You may want to say Christians are pushing beliefs into people’s throats but need I say that one may not successfully be able to disentangle faith from the morals. Faith, rules, politics, laws are inextricably linked. They are more similar than dissimilar. Whether you're a free thinker, Muslim, Buddhist whatever, your faith guides all that you do and if your faith guides you to be homosexual then you are as good as dead. I am proud to say I am a Christian and I look forward to falling into the loving embrace of my Savior, Jesus, when my curtains are drawn. I am not afraid to say that the west is up to no good when they force vile ways down our throats.
 Accepting homosexuality is dangerous to society. I say this not because I’m a closed-minded, progress-hating, ultra-conservative homophobic who simply can’t understand why a man chooses to love and have sex with another man. No, I say it’s dangerous because of what the wholesale acceptance of homosexuality REPRESENTS – a slow erosion of our responsibility towards the group and more towards individual hedonism. A slow shift of the boundaries of what’s acceptable or not in society. A gradual thinning and weakening of the glue that binds us together, forgetting that that glue, that responsibility we have towards each other, is actually what we call a society. I live you with the words of Ghandi…” A wrong is a wrong even if everyone is for it and a right is a right even if everybody is against it.” homosexuality is unnatural. PEACE