There has never been a widespread acceptance of this practice in Africa. Eunuchs were forcibly castrated for royal households in certain cultures to ensure they did not sire offspring with the women of those they serve. It wa ... read full comment
There has never been a widespread acceptance of this practice in Africa. Eunuchs were forcibly castrated for royal households in certain cultures to ensure they did not sire offspring with the women of those they serve. It was a barbaric practice to ensure certainty in the line of succession among the wealthy and monarchs. It is no indication of proclivity towards a gender bias.
There is also no known same gender marriages among women in Nigeria as you mention. The practice of barren women taking in other women whose children they consider and treat as their own is based on self preservation. This is to ensure they do not lead a lonely life when they get old. To this day some solve the problem by stealing children just like the unfortunate incident that happened to the lady at KATH. However the more widely accepted and legal route is adoption.
There is also no known practice of siring offspring with your brothers wife in Ghana and even if it happens it is no indication of same gender marriage.
Finally the practice you mentioned of killing twins was a cultural aberration spawned by a market in human sacrifice and body parts and propagated by traditional religious beliefs. That is unlikely to happen today thanks to education.
None of the arguments that you have advanced supports the same gender proclivity argument. As I said, there is nothing that can be advanced for it. You cannot advance an argument for an aberration.
Neurology and Psychology has proven that in cases of an physiological aberration which creates an offset pathological pattern, one of the best ways of realigning the aberration is through shock treatment. That is why in spite of the fact that kleptomania is one such aberration, society and the courts treats the physical manifestations as theft and commits the individual to jail or a treatment facility for realignment.
For people who have no such inclinations the practice is a shock to the system when it is on a belligerent display . No one campaigns to celebrate being heterosexual, male of female so why campaign to celebrate an alternate sexuality.
Be a man if you are a man or a woman as the case may be. Everyone is either male or female and that is how everybody wants it. I am not interested in whether you like ham sandwiches (which I hate) as long as it is not against the law.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Your response hasn't debunked my claims any bit.
Noboby said that there was widespread acceptance of homosexuality in Africa, sine the practice, btw, is very limited in scope anyway. All that is being said that it has exis ... read full comment
Your response hasn't debunked my claims any bit.
Noboby said that there was widespread acceptance of homosexuality in Africa, sine the practice, btw, is very limited in scope anyway. All that is being said that it has existed in Africa for time immemorial unlike what some are claiming and it was tolerated and even form part of the cultural tapestry and socio-econ prctices. True or false?
You can't just deny what I wrote about the practice of barren women marrying other women found in Ekiti and some parts of Nigeria, e.g., Obuhaba in Rivers State. I responded to a specific claim that such a thing is not found in Africa. Of course, they barren don't marry those women in order to have sex with them but who knows what happens later behind doors?
Because you don't know of something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. I ghave a true example and you're denying it. What about the old practice among some Ewes whereby the wife of junior brother who died is married off to a senior brother? Does it not negate your statement above?
Killing twins in Ibo-land wasn't motivated by a market in human parts in the past. That's not what the records say.
My arguments were in response to claims made by Charles to support his stance against gays; not arguments to support homosexuality. You got it wrong.
Andy-K
Says Who 11 years ago
Most or all the information put forward as emperical evidence in support of the practice of gender-warp practices are baseless.
Science proves that the emergence of such a trait is an aberration in genetic mutation, a vari ... read full comment
Most or all the information put forward as emperical evidence in support of the practice of gender-warp practices are baseless.
Science proves that the emergence of such a trait is an aberration in genetic mutation, a variant cause which can be classified as based on unknowned factors like kleptomania; the behavioural abnormality characterised by the pathological desire to steal, schizophrenia the mental anomaly characterized by extreme psychological tendencies.
All these are not normal as they impart a deviant lifestyle which negatively affects others or the sujects themselves.
This practice is largely negative and even when it was criminalized for centuries spawned the obscene and deviant undercurrent in paedophilia among the clergy and priests in certain churches.
Just look at all the harm visited on innocent young people as a result by persons operating under false pretences.
It is the failure to accept the condition as an aberration which is the problem. Aberrations do not have to be promoted.
Countries in have now quickly realised that wealthy tourists under ther the guise of holidaying preyed on the young and innocent and have now put in place rigid deterrents.
There is the hunt for new areas with rich pickings for this practice and Africa seems the obvious destination. As if years of abuse by priests is not enough we have this campaign to accept this facet of the practice which is now campaigning for the age of consent to be lowered so that boys can be legally be involved.
There are laws in Ghana which protects all people irrespective of their orientation. There is no need to create any new laws to force acceptance of the practice. The practice is fully accepted in many areas of the world now, so what needs to be done is to promote tourism to those areas that have embraced the practice and accept that those who do not like it also have a right not to be exposed to it. A lot of places do not like the practice and do not want to champion it. Ghana is one such place. A haven for those who do not like the practice.
Says Who 11 years ago
That is if you spot it
That is if you spot it
Osu Ashawo 11 years ago
So we prefer to keep it hidden in the closet as if it doesn't exist? Such hypocrisy!
So we prefer to keep it hidden in the closet as if it doesn't exist? Such hypocrisy!
MDT 11 years ago
Mr. Prempeh...I agree with you on the premise that the African culture perpetually forbids legalization of homosexuality.
Besides, homosexuality has true scientific bases. When the human genome project was completed, not a ... read full comment
Mr. Prempeh...I agree with you on the premise that the African culture perpetually forbids legalization of homosexuality.
Besides, homosexuality has true scientific bases. When the human genome project was completed, not a single gene could be found to support the claim that homosexuality was biological/genetic, like genes found are found the lefthandedness of some people.
Talk of democracy....which is majority government, the majority of Africans in every African country is kicking against that act.
Homosexuality has no place in African to be recognized.
MDT 11 years ago
In my earlier post, I wish to state that ......Homosexuality has no true scientific bases. Only falsified, fabricated and twisted studies.
In my earlier post, I wish to state that ......Homosexuality has no true scientific bases. Only falsified, fabricated and twisted studies.
Boo Yaa 11 years ago
TELL that Andrew Carr, the defender & master of HOMOS-that GHANA IS zero tollerance for HOMOS.NO-CHANCE, IF CAUGHT GET LYNCH-PERIOD.
TELL that Andrew Carr, the defender & master of HOMOS-that GHANA IS zero tollerance for HOMOS.NO-CHANCE, IF CAUGHT GET LYNCH-PERIOD.
Roy 11 years ago
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the c ... read full comment
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27. And likewise also men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Jesus says in Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8. And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Opoku-Agyemang Samuel 10 years ago
You're very objective and very precise. I have read a lot of articles. Pro's and con's on the subject of homosexuality. After reading your article .I can say that are very opened minded writer. Thanks for your research and p ... read full comment
You're very objective and very precise. I have read a lot of articles. Pro's and con's on the subject of homosexuality. After reading your article .I can say that are very opened minded writer. Thanks for your research and publication.
Not an iota of truth in what you have said.
There has never been a widespread acceptance of this practice in Africa. Eunuchs were forcibly castrated for royal households in certain cultures to ensure they did not sire offspring with the women of those they serve. It wa ...
read full comment
Your response hasn't debunked my claims any bit.
Noboby said that there was widespread acceptance of homosexuality in Africa, sine the practice, btw, is very limited in scope anyway. All that is being said that it has exis ...
read full comment
Most or all the information put forward as emperical evidence in support of the practice of gender-warp practices are baseless.
Science proves that the emergence of such a trait is an aberration in genetic mutation, a vari ...
read full comment
That is if you spot it
So we prefer to keep it hidden in the closet as if it doesn't exist? Such hypocrisy!
Mr. Prempeh...I agree with you on the premise that the African culture perpetually forbids legalization of homosexuality.
Besides, homosexuality has true scientific bases. When the human genome project was completed, not a ...
read full comment
In my earlier post, I wish to state that ......Homosexuality has no true scientific bases. Only falsified, fabricated and twisted studies.
TELL that Andrew Carr, the defender & master of HOMOS-that GHANA IS zero tollerance for HOMOS.NO-CHANCE, IF CAUGHT GET LYNCH-PERIOD.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the c ...
read full comment
You're very objective and very precise. I have read a lot of articles. Pro's and con's on the subject of homosexuality. After reading your article .I can say that are very opened minded writer. Thanks for your research and p ...
read full comment