Deep Sight:

There are se[b]x[/b]ual practices that can actually be very very physically harmful and even constitute assault and battery. Such as Bondage, Domination, Sado Masochism. Why is no one criminalizing these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission

And if that is criminalized, just how many se[b]x[/b]ual perversions will we go on to criminalize?

This is misdirected energy.

Evil Brain:

Obviously, they're hoping that by passing this bill they can make Nigerians to forget what a lazy, useless bunch of parasites they all are. They are hoping that we'll forget that they failed to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill last term and that the bill has to start the entire process again from scratch. They are hoping we'll forget about the dozens of other important bills that they've been sitting on, some for up to a decade, without passing.

They are hoping that we'll forget about how they were able to amend the constitution in record time to protect their jumbo allowances, yet they couldn't find time to make the small change that would allow states to control the electricity they generate by themselves and improve the power situation. They want us to forget about the sharing of money every time they pass a budget.

But one day their hour will come. I don't know what will happen in the future, but there can be no doubt that things cannot remain this way for long.

Dede1: @OP

Nigerians in particular and Africans in general always look moronic in their choice of analogy. I guess the 1999 Nigerian constitution makes it clear on the provision of human right. The pronouncement is “human” not the acts of human. If heterosexuals form a group and decide to disturb our social decorum with their bedroom antics or roadside shows, I bet you there should be a law against such ridiculous shenanigans. I do not know what or who created the earth however in my assessment, the creator is not a fool. There was no atom of blunder when he\she\it created man and woman. I guess anybody who wants to distort the natural mandate should have a little discomfort. It is very natural.

rhymz: you could not have said it any better. I keep telling these gay mongers that no right is absolute or infinit in itself, it will have to be in the limits of its jurisdiction to stand else, whatever benefits derivable from it will be null and void. For instance, everyone has the right to freedom of worship but can one still argue about such rights if he goes beyond the boundries of such rights and start making human sacrifices as part of worship, NO?
I have rights to gather with my friends and form any association and fight for rights but if the basis of such formation is such that will threaten people's existence or way of life, don't be surpeised if you lose such rights.
Being gay is a decision and not some natural phenomenon that just happened to some unfortunate person. Such decisions should not be rammed down our oesophagus just so we can look accommodating and advanced while such misnormer takes it toll on way of life.

Evil Brain: The senate just passed the harmonised version of this horrible bill. And they've made no attempt to fix the draconian and unconstitutional parts.


Time to resurrect the old thread.

Evil Brain: The most obvious problem with this bill is that it is completely unconstitutional. In fact, it violates the 1999 constitution is so many ways that it's shocking to me that it even survived its first reading talk less of being passed.

It has provisions to prevent gäys from forming associations, gathering together, protesting or petitioning the government. It makes witnessing, publicising or promoting gäy marriage a crime. By doing this, it tramples on freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, the right of the people to petition the government to redress greivances and limits open political discourse.

It is important to note that this affects the rights of not only gäys, but all Nigerians. If this becomes law, anyone who forms an HIV/AIDS advocacy group that targets hömösexuals will be liable to a long prison sentence. Even posting on this thread will make you a criminal. This cannot be allowed to happen in a democracy.

Horus:

Can you post the "harmonised version" of the bill on the forum

itodoho:
you see, i dont blame many of you here who have supported same sex marriage or rather as you have window dressed it, that preventing same sex marriage by law would set a bad precedent for other laws in the country.anyways, like i said, it is not surprising at all!most of you have spent all if not most of your lives in the west, so much so that you have lost all respect for everything african!otherwise, how can a black person whose fore fathers were conceived after hard,vigourous, sweaty s*xx in the blessed lands of Africa ever contemplate supporting a thing such as same sex marriage?who ever heard of such an abomination!you all should bury your heads in shame oh ye lost souls of Africa!how disgusting, how shocking and yet how painful it is, that you have forgotten the moral virtues of your forbears! i say shame on you all!for you are all lost indeed and while you mothers weep and cry for this disgraceful generation, may their curses yet follow all of you to your grave! i have said my piece.

EvilBrain1:
There have been a lot of comments recently on this forum about the "anti gäy-marriage bill" most of them being curses or insults directed at gäys and claims of hömösexuality being unafrican. The few voices who have spoken out against the bill have been shoured down and accused of being closet hömösexuals and children of the devil. In order to prevent this forum from becoming an echo-chamber, I have decided to put down all the reasons why this bill is harmful and dangerous, and why it must not become law. Prepare for a long read, because there are many of them.