Sikaman Palava: Homosexuals have rights?

For centuries, people have wondered what would induce a man to express love to a fellow male and go beyond that to have sex with him and proceed further to the demented extent of proposing marriage to that male and in fact finally getting married to him in a very elaborate ceremony.

Some charismatic church pastors and bishops will readily attribute it to the spirits and even label it as the "spirit of homosexuality". So by extension, there must be a "spirit of lesbianism". In lesbianism, a woman has no desire for a man but for her fellow woman, a very queer phenomenon.

So the pastors are quick to blame the spirits and would even proceed to exorcise the spirit; but the plain truth is that such exorcisms rarely work because it might not be due to a spirit, after all. Of course, in particular cases it might be due to spirits or some spiritual influence, and exorcism will quell it. Otherwise it becomes a waste of breath and holy water.

Those who study psychology will tell you about what is known as the Oedipus complex, a childhood phenomenon. As an infant grows, it passes through a hazy phase where it identifies with its mother and father in different ways because of their sex differences.

During this formative period in the life of a child, the male child for instance tends to have some inexplicable sexual tendency towards the mother. If at this stage in his development the child develops hatred for the mother for one reason or another, instead of love; the tendency for that male child is to hate all women later on in life and start loving men.

In other cases where the family is eagerly expecting a female child because there is already a preponderance of male children, as soon as the mother puts to bed another male child, that child might not be loved and might not bond properly with the mother during the Oedipus stage the way he should; and that might affect the child, and go to make him develop a reverse sexual orientation.

The same is for lesbianism. Some of the cases are psychological, but we must also give room for spiritual causes, because the devil's influence cannot be discounted in the affairs of men.

What should also be noted is that in a good number of cases the biological basis of human behaviour is accountable. Experiments have shown that in some cases, homosexuality is a result of a genetic aberration, and has no social or psychological origin.

And contrary to the popular belief that animals are never homosexual in orientation, those who have observed animal behaviour to its minutest detail talk about the homosexual tendency on the part of some animals, which might also be due to genetic factors other than psychological ones.

The conclusion might be that, there is no single explanation for homosexuality, which makes it a phenomenon difficult to deal with. In many instances, it is a practice that is learnt and practised by persons, thereby making them heterosexuals.

For instance, in the prisons, people develop homosexual and lesbian tendencies only because their biological needs must be met. Their bodies need to love, and if a man is in prison and it is only men he sees around him, the immediate tendency is to love what is available. The person might not be a homosexual to start with, but circumstances will turn him into one, so environmental factors also account for some cases, the same way it happens in boys' schools and all-girls schools.

The reason why society frowns on homosexuality is that, it is beyond the imagination of most people that an orifice that is meant to discharge human waste in the form of faecal matter is the same orifice that doubles as a sex organ. It sounds very unnatural, and biologically; it is an abuse of the human anatomy. It is perversion and perverts are said to be dangerous to organised society.

Of course, some societies accept that a person's sexual orientation is a personal matter and should be respected as such. Even homosexual and lesbian priests have been installed, homosexual marriages have been consummated, and there are homosexual or gay pubs, parties and ceremonies that are backed by the freedom of association legislations, albeit misguidedly in some cases.

For us in Sikaman, it is a phenomenon that must be monitored, because there are people who are willing to copy anything foreign without even understanding it, and popularizing it. Indeed, some people are beginning to think that it is a craze just as fashion or new hairstyles. Is it any strange; therefore, that men are today dressing as women, complete with make-up, earrings and all?.

We can be thankful that all religions abhor unnatural sex including homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality (sex with animals). I once chanced upon a video that showed a dog having sex with a woman, and it clearly showed the extent to which womanhood has been debased. I just felt sorry for the human race, the human mind, human existence!

And it all has to do with nothing other than money, money and money.

People will do anything for money. We are hearing about homosexual sex-workers in Ghana, homosexual clubs and the like springing up.

The multi-million dollar question is whether the practice of homosexuality and lesbianism is legal? The law says unnatural sex is illegal and that brings the question. Is homosexuality unnatural? In other words, is anal sex between two men natural?

What the Ghanaian society understands about natural sex is that which goes on between man and woman, man and girl, or boy and woman. Where a man has anal sex with a woman, this is also considered unnatural irrespective of the fact that the coitus is with a woman. So beyond the union of male and female organs, any other form of sex is patently unnatural and therefore a perversion.

As for what some human rights experts say about the right to sexual orientation, I can only laugh and laugh again. Are they saying that if your sexual orientation is to have sex with animals, then it is your human right to go chasing dogs in the streets and having sex with them?

Source: Merari Alomele/The Spectator

Email: merarix2001@yahoo.co.uk Web site: www.merarialomele.com