OPINION! Church should move the lectern near to schools, lodges…if they are to help Uganda combat LGBTQ

Philosophers like Socrates, Plato and others have long posited that people are born good but acquire ‘ badness’ along the way as they grow up.

I am 100% in agreement with this school of thought.

It is indeed a schooled view that some people acquire manners that they were actually not born with at birth.

While growing, since we land in this world empty handed, many of the things we do are acquired.

Every negative danger associated with the vice of LGBQT must be explained.

The police surgeons and medical practitioners must explain all the attendant effects of homosexuality like rotting body parts, protruding out of internal organs etc.

Let those who intend to engage in it know the health hazards upfront.

Jesus Christ was lampooned for visiting and dining with sinners, something that the Pharisees protested strongly against.

When he paid a divine visit to Zacchaeus the Tax Collector and other sinners, many thought he was twisting the gospel.

Recently, when a disturbing video of some individuals who looked like students engaging in acts of homosexuality made rounds on social media, caused about 99% stress levels in some of us—such content should not be shared, actually— those sharing such should be arrested henceforth.

Dear religious leaders, it may be of some help if you took the gospel to places of sin such as lodges and some schools to directly preach to those engaged in these acts.

Parents toil to raise school fees and send their children to acquire decent education and many of these learners end up acquiring indecent manners.

An academic analysis shows that many sinners don’t go to church— that being the case the lectern should be moved nearer to the sinners and law breakers as Jesus did in the bible.

In the formative days of creation, God created man and woman.

Knowing that man would be uncomfortable if he was left alone; Biblically in Genesis, God created a woman companion and ordered them to recreate or call it reproduce to fill up the human race.

Today, March 26, 2023, I petition religious leaders to come out openly and activate every verse and chapter in the bible against this vice of LBGQT.

I also beseech cultural leaders. Please speak up. Cultural leaders are in charge of our customs. It is a recognised thought that customs teach more than schools on areas of manners. Our elders, where are you, please speak up!

Cultural leaders who are custodians of our cultures and customs must raise their voice a little bit higher than before.

Where is Buganda’s voice on this! Bugisu cultural institution where are you?

We expect schools to be more vigilant since they are in charge of our children. Cameras should be installed in every corner of the school and as parents we shall be prepared to bear the costs.

Stronger laws are needed including strict enforcement.

Over 99% of Ugandans, are patiently putting their hope in the new Anti-LGBT bill to curb the vice.

We must wake up and speak aggressively so that Uganda and Africa don’t become a den of homosexuals unable to produce future generations.

The writer is a PHD student and coordinator of the Makerere University-Mbale branch.

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