Like the legendary Phoenix that always
emerges from its very ashes whenever it
is thought to have been destroyed,
Nigerians, for the umpteenth time, were
again treated to a grisly spectacle of
warped debate by advocates of homosexual
practice recently at the floor of the
National Assembly. In what may sum up as
the kernel of their argument, as
espoused by a self-acclaimed
spokesperson of the amorphous
association called “Nigerian Lesbians,
gays, Bisexual, Transsexuals and
Intersex living in Diaspora”, they claim
that a number of talented Nigerian
Homosexuals are living outside the
country and helping to develop their
host countries but are afraid to come
and live in their own motherland,
Nigeria, for fear of being victimized.
They capped up their grouse with the
all-pervasive justificatory catch
phrase, “unfair treatment”
And thus, proceeding from the standpoint
of the above jeremiad, the proponents of
Homosexual freedom sought to prove to
the rest of us how deep we have fallen
into the cesspit of ignorance and
consequently, how far backward we are
from the fast moving bandwagon of
modernity, in our continued insistence
on repugnancy to morality and religion
as bases for opposition to homosexual
practice.
While it is conceded that homosexual
practice has existed for ages in the
history of mankind, given the biblical
expression of divine malediction against
it, however, at no time since the
emergence of the malefaction called sex
perversion, has its proponents been as
bold as they are now in their collective
quest for societal recognition and
imprimatur. In their bid to
scientifically articulate the basis to
validate the points as to why the
strange malefaction must be allowed to
co-exist with the normal heterosexual
practice, the homosexuals usually resort
seek to take refuge either in the
concept of personal Liberty as enshrined
in Fundamental Human Rights or in what
the term natural orientation.
It was unarguably on the foregoing basis
that the young lady who claimed to be
the spokesperson of the Nigerian
homosexuals in Diaspora qualified the
non acceptance of homosexual practice in
the respective communities of the
homosexuals as “unfair” practice against
them.
Now, to properly do justice to the
subject matter of this piece, several
questions beg to be answered: were the
gays and lesbians among us created as
such and naturally oriented towards
their respective sex perversion? Does
the concept of Fundamental Human Rights
contemplate freedom for the gays and
lesbianism to practice as such?
To start with, what is fundamental
right? There is a universal consensus
that fundamental rights are inalienable
entitlements divinely bestowed on
mankind by reason only of his being part
of human species. By the term
“inalienable” it presupposes that the
rights guaranteed as fundamental rights
are neither bestowed by the law nor can
be taken away by the law. It is however
conceded that various dimensions of
explanations of human rights have now
been put forward obviously to water down
the exact purports of the concept in
order to serve peculiar interests.
However, the fact cannot be gainsaid
that the original concept of human
rights is traceable to ancient religious
values.
Flowing from the above, can it validly
be argued that the divine creator who,
in the beginning, created man and woman
and bestowed on them their respective
gender capabilities, would again turn
around to create a man and bestow on him
female sexual orientation, except there
is a distortion of the original plan by
another?
It is this distortion, I make bold to
say, that is the missing link in all the
arguments about homosexual practice.
That a sexually distorted personality
seeks to orient himself toward the
opposite sex cannot be attributed to the
creator as all that God created in the
beginning was perfect.
It is rather preposterous and ironical
that in same sex marriage, one of the
partners would play the wife and
manifest all the attributes of
femininity while the other would remain
the man. Why create a surrogate for
keep of what you hate in its original
form to have? This, more than anything
else, a clear demonstration of extreme
confusion and personality disorder in
the sex perverts.
Gay, lesbianism or whatever euphemism
the proponent may like to have them
called, cannot be justified in any
circumstance, anymore than the victims
of nymphomania and kleptomania who also
lay claim to belonging to that
cloistered and nebulous constituency
called “natural orientation”. The fact
is, just as the nymphomania and
kleptomania, the sex pervert are in dire
need of help, but will they admit it?
CHRIS EDACHE AGBITI, ESQ.
A COMMENTATOR ON NATIONAL ISSUES
PRACTISES LAW IN THE FIRM OF OBLA AND
CO, MAITAMA, ABUJA
Published
December 11th, 2011
