Homosexuality is the gravitation and gyration towards same-sex romantic feelings and behaviour. Female homosexuals are lesbians. While male ones are gays. Schools treat homosexuality cases as forms of aberrant behaviour, immorality and indiscipline. Homosexuality compromises school safety. It also besmirches the school image. It affects academic performance.
Sometimes, homosexuality is in the area like bacteria, but we remain quiet about it. You must have read or heard: Kenya has three official languages — English, Kiswahili and Silence. Yet, Martin Luther King (MLK) warned, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” We should sensitise students that homosexuality is outside religious, moral and African cultural context.
Somewhat, it is social deception spreading through “subliminal seduction”, where advertisers use sophisticated Freudian, Jungian and Gestalt techniques to send messages to consumers at a level below conscious awareness. Then, through social deception, wrong becomes right. No wonder, in the distant past, Saint Augustine of Hippo observed, “Right is right even when no one is doing it. Wrong is wrong even when everyone is doing it.”
Social deception
In this essay, I can say that the six stages of social deception include shocker, outrage, discussion, tolerance, acceptance, and veneration. Deceivers dropped the bombshell that there is nothing wrong with a woman marrying a woman or a man marrying a man. An outrage followed suit. Proponents received scathing attacks as they defended their new-fangled stance. Evil started percolating into people’s minds the way water swishes into tanks.
Then, discussion followed, where some fell into the deep ditch of deception. Now, the lure of lucre is still enticing some people. In Kenya, we have heard of court cases on this taboo topic. Any sane person can also see the tragedy of many men acting like women in the name of comedy.
We think it is funny. Yet, it is posing an existential threat to the young generation. More so, the boy child. Too true. Things are going south. Talking of tolerance, a parent may say, thank God my son is not a faggot. So, I do not care about the sex and sexuality of other children. Then, some invoke science. Leading to the debate about “Sexual Orientation” – the argument that some people are born as members of the “alphabet community”. We rush to quote the UN Human Rights Charter. Activists talk about it. Nations “legalise” it in their Justice Systems. Powerful nations impose economic and travel sanctions on countries against it.
Acceptance and veneration—focus on entrenching it at the social level. In acceptance, homosexuality becomes a conventional alternative way of living, whereas, in veneration, it becomes old-fashioned and intolerant. In veneration, homosexuals get plenty of plaudits. Misleading media describe them as cool and good. In the West, it is at the last stage—veneration. Guess where it is in Kenya.
Diabolical dimension
Sadly, forms of sexual perversion like nudity take that diabolical dimension. Consider some female folk with absence of sense who dress scantily, revealing many acres of their bodies to the public, but blatant about it as they chant: My dress, My Choice. Yet, it is Monkey See, Monkey Do Syndrome. When gullible girls see it, they think it is fashionable. Yet, our daughters should know that nudity or exhibitionism is seen as a sin. Moreover, in an unputdownable book, I pored over titled Sexual Perversion: An Evangelical Approach, Rev. Dr Gang Pam (2001) cogently contends: “Three things are permeating, controlling, influencing, dictating and dominating society — Power, money and sex.”
He explains sinful sexual behaviour like homosexuality, fornication, adultery, incest, bestiality, voyeurism, masturbation, watching pornography, et cetera. Therefore, you do not need a giant intellect to detect it. As a practising Christian, I can join Dr. Gang Pam in saying that in Judeo-Christian heritage, homosexuality is not good because it is bad.
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Apostle Paul penned in Romans 1:18-26. I paraphrase: “…So, their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, men abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lusts for one another.” Leviticus 18:22 warns, “Do not commit homosexuality; having sex with another man as with a woman is a detestable sin.” Leviticus 20:13 says, “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death. Their blood will be on their heads.”
Moreover, in an unfortunate twist of fate, sodomy destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19. Two ethereal celestial beings — Angels ― visited Lot. Not at night or midnight. But at twilight. Lot accommodated them, but men intended to sleep with them before they retired to bed. Lot went out, lambasted them, and was ready to offer his two chaste and virgin daughters far from the age of consent. When they threatened to break the door, Angels made them blind like bats.
Then, it is right to write. Homosexuality is also behavioural. In a heroic book I read recently, titled Welcome to Your Brain, co-authors Dr Sandra Aamodt and Dr Sam Wang argue: “Life history influences how people express their sexuality.” Sociologists and psychologists posit that there are more cases of homosexuality among guests of state in prisons, which are consequences of confining same sex together for long. This explains the essence of mid-term and end-of-term breaks in schools. Schools should have frequent interactions between boys and girls to enhance emotional stability. Let there be more inter-school activities such as games, sports, music, dance, drama, dinner, contests and symposia.
Informed speakers
Finally, schools should invite informed speakers to address such issues. Teachers should integrate Life Skills Education in their delivery of other subjects, as the great educationist Dr. Lydia Nzomo proposed in her heroic book Staying the Course. Schools should constitute deft departments of Guidance and Counselling. Teacher-counsellors should take note of contemporary issues.
Peer Counsellors should be identified and trained. Deputy principals and Discipline Committees should not compromise when handling indiscipline cases. Principals should invest in proper Student Council training. The school sponsor (the Church) and guest preachers should confront this social deception through sound teachings. Pious people should pray for sanity in schools. The boarding department should remain vigilant and strict. Through evolution, not revolution, schools should shift from entertainment to edutainment—entertainment plus education.
By Victor Ochieng’
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