benedictnsi:
Thunder weh go fire you don d do press-up now...... E go soon strike you @Op

All these sexy nyash dem, scattered all over the country, wetin go down warm am

Make una no let me vex ooo..... You think say this homo or gay stuff, e get as Nigerian girls take like am?

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I hate gay

Swaggzkid:
Op You dey mad! sef



Your VIP ticket to hell is ready

MaziKachi:


So a gay guy sees another gay guy and they say they love each other, how does it affect you?

MaziKachi:
Talk about legalizing or at least ignoring homosexuals in Nigeria and the average Nigerian youth will show up online and begin to throw tantrums. The reason for their homo phobia is simple, its unnatural to love a fellow man, its against our customs and traditions and it’s a moral ill. So when President Goodluck Jonathan signed the bill criminalising homosexuality, the whole Nigerians commended the “feat”. Of course, the West spoke out and Nigerians, in their usual burst of inferiority complex, a deep seated fear that they were colonised and 50 years later, they are still dependent on their colonisers, spoke out, saying that America cannot impose its “devilish gay agenda” in Nigeria. Fine and good. Now, let us carefully dissect this situation, at the end, you’ll see that Nigerians are contradicting themselves.

According to the human rights declaration, all humans have the
• Right to self-determination[1]
• Right to liberty[2]
• Right to due process of law[2]
• Right to freedom of movement[3]
• Right to freedom of thought[4]
• Right to freedom of religion[4]
• Right to freedom of expression[5]
• Right to peacefully assemble[6]
• Right to freedom of association[7]

( Ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_rights )

So if we claim that homosexuality is a moral ill, what right have we to choose for another person, his religion? What right have we to decide what is right and what is not about another person’s life? Homosexuality, sex between two people of same sex in the privacy of their rooms and with the full consent of both parties does no harm to anyone, it doesn’t infringe of any of your fundamental human rights so what right have you to judge another human, to castigate another human simply because he chose to love a man his sex? If you claim its against your religion, do you know if his permits it?

Africans, having gone through slavery should be at the fore front of homosexual rights, not its biggest obstacle. In 1959, the police in Virginia arrested a couple, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter. Their crime? They were married to each other. Richard was a white guy and Mildred a colored lady. If this happened in 2015, Nigerians would have been online, throwing all manner of vituperations and accusing the United States of supporting racism. But then again, what is the difference between arresting an interracial couple for choosing to love one another and arresting a homosexual couple for choosing to love one another? Nothing! In both cases, the couples are arrested because the chose to be different, not to follow forged paths. At the end, Nigeria’s hostility towards homosexuals would be the greatest hypocrisy there ever was.

Another argument, perhaps, the most ridiculous of them all, is that homosexuality is against our cultures and traditions. Then I begin to wonder which “culture” and which “traditions” these people mean. You sleep with a girl before you get married, it’s not against “our culture”, you become a Christian or a Muslim, it’s not against “our culture”, You marry from another tribe, it’s still not against “our culture”, you even go ahead desecrate shrines in the name of Christianity or Islam and it’s still not against “our culture” then, then when somebody speaks of giving a man who chose to love another, which by the way, is none of your business and you spring up with the argument that it is against our “culture” the one begins to wonder if you’re being hypocritical or you just decided to close your eyes to reason. Again, Kendall(1990) posited from her research in various African countries, prominent of which is Lesotho, that African culture, though not recognising homosexual marriages, was not homophobic. So I truly wonder where the argument of “culture” and “tradition” stems from and if this “cultures and traditions” cannot be changed by men who made them.

Finally, the sole aim of this piece is not to ask for the legalisation of same sex marriages in Nigeria, it is to ask for the acceptance of homosexuals as normal sane people who are aware of their decisions. It is to ask for the repeal of the law that criminalises same sex association in Nigeria. When we start to grow tolerant of each other and realise that a love affair between two consenting men or women does not hurt you or affect you in any way is when we’ll understand that being Igbo or Hausa does not really matter when it comes to determining the destiny of Nigeria. I am not a homosexual, but having read so much literature on slavery and what the black race has had to pass through to be accepted, I feel we should embrace and accept the LGBT community in our midst.

References:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/may/21/complex-roots-africa-homophobia
http://thisisafrica.me/homosexuality-african-history-roots-criminalisation-homosexuality/
http://nehandaradio.com/2014/03/10/homosexuality-battle-african-conservatism/


NB; I'll only reply to objective criticisms of this piece.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I hate gay

imhotep:

^ Do you really think that this homosexuality nonsense should be a PRIORITY, given all the problems in Africa?

MaziKachi:


What are the "problems" in Africa if not intolerance? The Famine, the corruption, the wars and everything is just because we are divided across ethnic, religious and social lines. When Africans become tolerant of Each other and work as a cohesive Unit, half of our problems will be solved. Tolerance means accepting a gay guy as your friend even when you are not gay.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I hate gay

imhotep:

Can you find ANOTHER way of addressing this alleged intolerance, instead of proposing diabolical homosexuality.

deadZONE:
I think its high time we make provision for homosexual laws in this country... and put a death penalty on child rape.

kosovo:


If you didn't have sex before marriage, you may have a slight point..

But if you were testing before marriage, or not married and still testing.. then the word hypocrisy won't be out of place here..

I am just trying to be rational here. I know someone would soon say I am gay.. Which of course, is far from reality..

babyfaceafrica:
@OP ....in as much you have put in a well documented opinion why Nigerians should embrce gay..it aint going to happen...at least for naw!!...dere are three main dominant religion in this country ..none supports it...nigerians are deeply spiritually aalthough dey do not really act it,but am sure dey won't acced to this gy issue.also OP we have cultures and tradition which are in contrast to wht this same sex is aall about..for anybody who wnts to indulge in gay,I vehemently suggest you drop this act,but m not a judge nor am I ur father,so do as you wish but be prepared to receive anything that comes from it...... NB...people should stop busing the OP,you caan simply ignore..thts how mature minds do

MaziKachi:


I'm not gay. Just a person who hates oppression. I believe i sufficiently addressed the issue of "religion" and "culture and tradition" in the piece.

MaziKachi:


there are over 5000 religions, which means over 5000 hells, which one am I going to?

Dont forget, your chance of making heaven is 1 in 5000, assuming youre practicing your religion correctly.

imhotep:

To HELL with Homosexuality.

If you are not gay, then go an marry some fine lady, and LOOK FOR CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO AFRICA'S PROBLEMS