SPECIAL REPORT : Why queries are raised whether homosexuality is really sexuality

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With me, if you are an African who is faithful to authentic African traditions and mores, you may wonder how all this has emerged in a short few decades of the social globalising upheaval.

To me as a sociolinguist, the fabric of this false landscape is language—language that frames everyone and everything in a way that fundamentally revitalises the truth about human nature and, as all Africans believe, God’s real plan for us and our sexuality. I would assert that this process all started with a single but compound word: homo-sexuality. The word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid. On the one hand, the word sexuality means ‘the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles”. On the other hand, the word homo is derived from the Greek word ‘homos’ which means “same”. This word ‘homos’ is not related to, and should not be confused with, the Latin word “homo”, which means “man”. This is the meaning of ‘homo’ in the phrase Homo sapiens. Therefore, homosexuality connotes sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbians and gays.

Press the mental button and fast-forward to the present day! The 150-year-old crack in the dam has become a gaping fissure that allows modern globalized minds and hearts to be flooded with some muddied and foul waters. Now everything is up for grabs because both our behaviors and our identities have become as fluid as the floodwater. Liberal culture now grants us absolute permission to equivocate authentic sexuality with myriad counterfeits, identified by the abbreviation ‘LGBTQ’ which stands for ‘lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers’. What is more interesting is that even those who are questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation consider themselves as members of LGBTQ. This permissive liberal culture is safeguarded by coining even more terminology designed to protect the original insult to truth about sexuality, bringing about deeper and more deadly moral collapse.

Now men who “feel” like women, and women who feel like men, must be affirmed rather than healed. Now men who know they are men are merely “dis-gendered” out of relativistic respect for those who are “transgendered”—all because fluidity—not authentic sexuality—must be maintained at all costs. Now, even “gay sex” is treated as real sex rather than the unreal and aberrant mutual masturbation of deeply confused souls. I know, by saying all this, by the way, I’m exposing myself to be condemned, by the LGBTQ movement pushers, as the worst of “haters” (homophobists!) — worthy of condemnation and perhaps prosecution and imprisonment in some countries! Fortunately, in most African countries, including Tanzania, this ‘unreal sexual aberrant movement’ is not supported by law. It is therefore worth going through, albeit at length, the legal protection against false sexuality.

Section 154.Any person who, in public or private commits, or is a party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any person of, any act of gross indecency with another person, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings; save that where the offence is committed by a person of eighteen years of age or more in respect of any person under eighteen years of age, the offender shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than ten years, with corporal punishment, and shall also be ordered to pay compensation of an amount determined by the court to the person in respect of whom the offence was committed for any injuries physical or psychological caused to that person.

SPECIAL REPORT : Why queries are raised whether homosexuality is really sexuality

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