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It is amazing to experience the kind of unity of purpose the developed world has
shown in condeming the Nigerian legislative bill seeking to criminalise same sex
marriage in Nigeria. It is also revealing the kind of unity of national purpose that is
possible in Nigeria’s defiance of this foreign pressure. The issue of same sex
marriage can be resolved only via a higher knowledge of the purpose of man on
earth. Unfortunately, this higher knowledge exists only in fragments in present
religious configurations. You may need to grow above religion itself to comprehend
it.
The first recorgnition that must hit us is the fact that the world as a whole is going
somewhere. There is a purpose for existence, which may be different from what
the super powers percieve. The purpose of existence may not necessarily match
what the capitalists and the socialists think of it. It may differ from where the
United Nations has attuned the world to go in the next decades through her
development programmes. It has little to do with what science or religion has
postulated. It has to do with our recorgnition that our world amongst other worlds
are governed by a being of higher existence far above what we can comprehend
here within our small brains. We call Him God. Others have many other names for
Him. We have come to an epoch in our individual and collective maturity that we
must seek to know his true nature so that we do not perish driven into the ditch by
ignorant leaders, systems and ideologies as we have today.
The issue of increasing same sex marriage is just one of the numerous signs that
our humanity is heading in the wrong direction. It does not support the so-called
bill passed by the Nigerian house or stand against it. This article will attempt to
point out vividly that the system that makes it even possible for such a debate to
hold as a sign that it has become rampant is due for a reassessment. There are
other abnormalities in our direction of develiopment. The West call it democracy,
some call it ‘communism’ or ‘socialism’. Yet others prefer ‘State religion’. The
nation state system on which the United Nations came into existence protects
only sovereignty of nation states, which are inanimate. Later on besieged by
increasing human rights violation within these nations the United Nations
organisation extended their protection to human beings but without removing their
higher regard for nations and so created a paradox. In the modern world human
rights is an emotional affair supported by countries that can turn the other cheek
at crutial times when their own countries are involved. While the Arab spring
blossomed in the Middle East America gave support but when the occupy Wall
Street came in her backyard she turned the other cheek to arrest protesters.
All the contradictions that have emerged in both communist and capitalist
systems of governance despite attempts by each to progress towards the other
should prove to discerning observers that the world at best gropes for a direction.
How can anti human values, as same sex marriage, abortion, homosexuality,
difficult births, masculanisation of the feminine sex, etc, be captioned human
rights and promoted? Of course, you may interject here and querry this writer:
who is human? Yes, we need to redefine human again. Is it the brutalised deviant
humanity of today or should we go back in history to abrace ourselves of the true
human values? The truth is that the ‘human beings’ our civilisation has nurtured
today in the name of progress cannot be described as human. To become a true
human being is to be Godlike. We have moved away from the Godlike environment
provided us; the Godlike values graciously made available through Customs and
Traditions to each of the peoples depending on their soil and climate. We have
created a gulf instead of a bridge between our Creator and us by overdeveloping
our intellectual part of the brain (cerebrum) to dwarf our spiritual brain (cerebelum).
To this end, we are no longer able to receive spiritual support and true guidiance
and we have now veered into our own small brain thinkings and vision. Therefore,
we gradually approach the ‘too late’ unless issues like the same sex marriage or
gay marriage can pull us back to our senses to get life going right henceforth as it
is willed by God.
Of course going by the definition of democracy and the rule of law as well as
human rights statutes and agreements binding Nigeria with other “civilised Worlds”
it is wrong for any country to bring forth religious values into secular laws
governing countries. It seen as violation of the human rights, freedom of worship,
and freedom of speech etc, for a nation to determine for her citizens the sexual
preference they should accept. However, no one is talking about how this law is to
work in Nigeria where even basic laws lie unimplementable. That should be
another story for another day. A friend of mine even went further to postulate what
happens in Nigeria after the popular passage and assent to the bill. According to
him, on a positive side the same sex marriage bill is one that has proved there is
indeed a Nigerian culture: going by its popularity in Boko Haram and Christain
camps. Is it a sign that Nigeria can live together? Whatever it will bring my friend
thinks that the next sequel to this bill would be to ban women from wearing
trousers and make up and maybe ban sports where men are forced to embrace
each other. This is absurb view to it; I shrugged my shoulders at the direction he
was going. It did not stop him from pointing out that this was one of the demands
of Boko Haram, that western education was leading the world astray. I stayed
quiet for a while as the meaning hit me.
On the other hand, he insisted the west had hidden agenda with their aids
directed at just one narrow area: reproductive health. The uproar in condemnation
of the bill and the veiled threats to stop inflow of aid money for HIV cure and
prevention rings a warning bell in our ears.Does it not? So the whole direction of
gay marriage policy in Africa could have been tied with HIV eradication or is there
some smokescreeen in there? Why would the West be interested in promoting
gay marriage here if it is not to encourage lower birth rates amongst our people,
my friend pointed out? Again, I became silent! Oh, so they want us to
approximate their aging population so that things can balance out or is it an
acceptance that western value system has failed the West? Oh, so, Western aid:
is it directed at making us more and more sterile through the promotion of rights-
the right to be wrong.
Therefore, the two contending directions open to us will lead into a ditch.
TheBokoHaram is looking at a future where all is hooded and marrying many
wives. Where the men are overloards of their women and the children can be
beggars.On the other hand the gay marriage proponents want a society where
Western values can take root so that less reproduction prevail and population go
down until the West can also have here as their home after spoiling their own
environment. In both, there is no hope of resuccitating the old African value
system and custom, there is no place for the African as sons of the soil except as
refugees in their own land.
The third way must hold promise for renaissance of the African culture as one-
time leaders of the world and that can only come through a stop and think
process, taking advantage of the present cleavage to reposition our true interest
aligned with the will of God. The will of God for creation is an existence, which
sees woman as the bridge between man and God upwards. Man works positively
outwards in this coarse earth while the woman works passively inwards. Both will
need each other on earth for a fulfilled existence. Both man and woman are equal
but the woman stands half a step higher spiritually and so can attract a child
because as a gift from above while the man will work with coarse forms here to
also bring food to the table. Marriage is therefore the fulfilment of the will of God for
creation and can only happen at point of spiritual maturity of man and woman.
Therefore, this whole distraction about “woman liberation” advocated in ignorance
on one hand and as a reaction to the symptom of abuse of the normal order on
the other hand. Like the gay marriage ban or call for gay freedom, which are only
reaction to the wrong ordering of society out of ignorance or conceit, Solutions
cannot come from these excercises in futility. We must go to the roots to
recorgnise the true will of God iin Creation. In my search, only one man analysed
these solutions as far back as 1923 in Austria. His name was Oscar Bernhardt,
who published under the pen name Abdrushin his all time classic “In the Light of
Truth” THE GRAIL MESSAGE. He advocated we return to our roots and discover
the grace and help that come with each soil for the true progress of each peoples
*Mr Nworisara, a Policy and Media Consultant writes from Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
shown in condeming the Nigerian legislative bill seeking to criminalise same sex
marriage in Nigeria. It is also revealing the kind of unity of national purpose that is
possible in Nigeria’s defiance of this foreign pressure. The issue of same sex
marriage can be resolved only via a higher knowledge of the purpose of man on
earth. Unfortunately, this higher knowledge exists only in fragments in present
religious configurations. You may need to grow above religion itself to comprehend
it.
The first recorgnition that must hit us is the fact that the world as a whole is going
somewhere. There is a purpose for existence, which may be different from what
the super powers percieve. The purpose of existence may not necessarily match
what the capitalists and the socialists think of it. It may differ from where the
United Nations has attuned the world to go in the next decades through her
development programmes. It has little to do with what science or religion has
postulated. It has to do with our recorgnition that our world amongst other worlds
are governed by a being of higher existence far above what we can comprehend
here within our small brains. We call Him God. Others have many other names for
Him. We have come to an epoch in our individual and collective maturity that we
must seek to know his true nature so that we do not perish driven into the ditch by
ignorant leaders, systems and ideologies as we have today.
The issue of increasing same sex marriage is just one of the numerous signs that
our humanity is heading in the wrong direction. It does not support the so-called
bill passed by the Nigerian house or stand against it. This article will attempt to
point out vividly that the system that makes it even possible for such a debate to
hold as a sign that it has become rampant is due for a reassessment. There are
other abnormalities in our direction of develiopment. The West call it democracy,
some call it ‘communism’ or ‘socialism’. Yet others prefer ‘State religion’. The
nation state system on which the United Nations came into existence protects
only sovereignty of nation states, which are inanimate. Later on besieged by
increasing human rights violation within these nations the United Nations
organisation extended their protection to human beings but without removing their
higher regard for nations and so created a paradox. In the modern world human
rights is an emotional affair supported by countries that can turn the other cheek
at crutial times when their own countries are involved. While the Arab spring
blossomed in the Middle East America gave support but when the occupy Wall
Street came in her backyard she turned the other cheek to arrest protesters.
All the contradictions that have emerged in both communist and capitalist
systems of governance despite attempts by each to progress towards the other
should prove to discerning observers that the world at best gropes for a direction.
How can anti human values, as same sex marriage, abortion, homosexuality,
difficult births, masculanisation of the feminine sex, etc, be captioned human
rights and promoted? Of course, you may interject here and querry this writer:
who is human? Yes, we need to redefine human again. Is it the brutalised deviant
humanity of today or should we go back in history to abrace ourselves of the true
human values? The truth is that the ‘human beings’ our civilisation has nurtured
today in the name of progress cannot be described as human. To become a true
human being is to be Godlike. We have moved away from the Godlike environment
provided us; the Godlike values graciously made available through Customs and
Traditions to each of the peoples depending on their soil and climate. We have
created a gulf instead of a bridge between our Creator and us by overdeveloping
our intellectual part of the brain (cerebrum) to dwarf our spiritual brain (cerebelum).
To this end, we are no longer able to receive spiritual support and true guidiance
and we have now veered into our own small brain thinkings and vision. Therefore,
we gradually approach the ‘too late’ unless issues like the same sex marriage or
gay marriage can pull us back to our senses to get life going right henceforth as it
is willed by God.
Of course going by the definition of democracy and the rule of law as well as
human rights statutes and agreements binding Nigeria with other “civilised Worlds”
it is wrong for any country to bring forth religious values into secular laws
governing countries. It seen as violation of the human rights, freedom of worship,
and freedom of speech etc, for a nation to determine for her citizens the sexual
preference they should accept. However, no one is talking about how this law is to
work in Nigeria where even basic laws lie unimplementable. That should be
another story for another day. A friend of mine even went further to postulate what
happens in Nigeria after the popular passage and assent to the bill. According to
him, on a positive side the same sex marriage bill is one that has proved there is
indeed a Nigerian culture: going by its popularity in Boko Haram and Christain
camps. Is it a sign that Nigeria can live together? Whatever it will bring my friend
thinks that the next sequel to this bill would be to ban women from wearing
trousers and make up and maybe ban sports where men are forced to embrace
each other. This is absurb view to it; I shrugged my shoulders at the direction he
was going. It did not stop him from pointing out that this was one of the demands
of Boko Haram, that western education was leading the world astray. I stayed
quiet for a while as the meaning hit me.
On the other hand, he insisted the west had hidden agenda with their aids
directed at just one narrow area: reproductive health. The uproar in condemnation
of the bill and the veiled threats to stop inflow of aid money for HIV cure and
prevention rings a warning bell in our ears.Does it not? So the whole direction of
gay marriage policy in Africa could have been tied with HIV eradication or is there
some smokescreeen in there? Why would the West be interested in promoting
gay marriage here if it is not to encourage lower birth rates amongst our people,
my friend pointed out? Again, I became silent! Oh, so they want us to
approximate their aging population so that things can balance out or is it an
acceptance that western value system has failed the West? Oh, so, Western aid:
is it directed at making us more and more sterile through the promotion of rights-
the right to be wrong.
Therefore, the two contending directions open to us will lead into a ditch.
TheBokoHaram is looking at a future where all is hooded and marrying many
wives. Where the men are overloards of their women and the children can be
beggars.On the other hand the gay marriage proponents want a society where
Western values can take root so that less reproduction prevail and population go
down until the West can also have here as their home after spoiling their own
environment. In both, there is no hope of resuccitating the old African value
system and custom, there is no place for the African as sons of the soil except as
refugees in their own land.
The third way must hold promise for renaissance of the African culture as one-
time leaders of the world and that can only come through a stop and think
process, taking advantage of the present cleavage to reposition our true interest
aligned with the will of God. The will of God for creation is an existence, which
sees woman as the bridge between man and God upwards. Man works positively
outwards in this coarse earth while the woman works passively inwards. Both will
need each other on earth for a fulfilled existence. Both man and woman are equal
but the woman stands half a step higher spiritually and so can attract a child
because as a gift from above while the man will work with coarse forms here to
also bring food to the table. Marriage is therefore the fulfilment of the will of God for
creation and can only happen at point of spiritual maturity of man and woman.
Therefore, this whole distraction about “woman liberation” advocated in ignorance
on one hand and as a reaction to the symptom of abuse of the normal order on
the other hand. Like the gay marriage ban or call for gay freedom, which are only
reaction to the wrong ordering of society out of ignorance or conceit, Solutions
cannot come from these excercises in futility. We must go to the roots to
recorgnise the true will of God iin Creation. In my search, only one man analysed
these solutions as far back as 1923 in Austria. His name was Oscar Bernhardt,
who published under the pen name Abdrushin his all time classic “In the Light of
Truth” THE GRAIL MESSAGE. He advocated we return to our roots and discover
the grace and help that come with each soil for the true progress of each peoples
*Mr Nworisara, a Policy and Media Consultant writes from Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
By Nwokedi Nworisara
Saturday December 10, 2011
Saturday December 10, 2011
The Nigerian Gay Marriage Bill and
Global outrage
Global outrage
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