Friday, September 6, 2013

'Make love not War'


OK - So many stories running in my country; very old men 'sodomizing' little boys; pupils of the same biological features 'indulging in sexual acts'  (http://www.newvision.co.ug/article/fullstory.aspx?story_id=641853&catid=6&mid=53), many more fellow ladies into Ladies and of course men into men in fact cohabiting! I havent heard of the transgender in here though...other than that of 'Audrey' in Kenya recently. 
I know this is one of those areas we would rather not talk about. Not that it's revered but because our society has built it to be disgraceful, appalling and all those other abomination words you may think of. Truth is LGBT is alive, kicking and growing.

According to the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project, 96 percent of Ugandan residents believe that homosexuality is a way of life that society should not accept, which was the fifth-highest rate of non-acceptance in the 45 countries surveyed. A poll conducted in 2010, however, revealed that 11 percent of Ugandans viewed homosexual behavior as being morally acceptable. Among other members of the East African Community, only 1 percent in Tanzania, 4 percent in Rwanda, and 1 percent in Kenya had the same view. (Burundi was not surveyed, while Southern Sudan was not yet born.)
In November 2012, the speaker of the Parliament of Uganda promised to enact a revised anti-homosexuality bill, providing for harsher penalties against suspected LGBT people and anyone who fails to report them to authorities, including long-term imprisonment and the death penalty for what the law terms "repeat offenders".

The Bible is interpreted by officials in some denominations as condemning the practice. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, however, the extent to which the Bible mentions the subject and whether or not it is condemned, has become the subject of debate.
Passages in the Old Testament book Leviticus that prohibit 'lying with mankind as with womankind' and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah have historically been interpreted as condemning homosexual acts, as have several Pauline passages. Other interpreters, however, maintain that these passages do not condemn homosexuality, saying that historical context suggests other interpretations or that rare or unusual words in the passages may not be referring to homosexuality.

I see tee shirts with huge wordings 'Make love not war.' Whoever coined that slogan should be added on the-great-thinkers list! Whether The Bible, The Statute or all of them are anti or pro LGBT , Lets simply tolerate each other after all, we are all sinners. I am a full blown 'Straight' individual that has come to accept the 'we are the same yet so different' philosophy which if all of us subscribed to, 'making love' would be as simple as 1, 2, 3. 
In fact, my President likes to say  issues of sexual nature are not of public discussion in the African culture! So how about we live with one another silently in love and not war.

However, Zero Tolerance on the older people that ruin minors!

Be kind to one another.







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