Disclaimer: I, Faraj, believe in heterosexual relations between human beings. For purposes of these sermons or other; I am not going to necessarily defend LGBT groups and related. I am rather going to speak my mind. I am a strait narrow in this regard and whoever doubts it must ask my male and female significant others. I am too old to do experiments that will make my fathers' guts churn in their graves. But I am going to speak my mind about heterosexuals vis-a-vis LGBT groups. Like the Equator, my moral line is arbitrary; but clear.
Strait is good. It is popular. It is normal. It is fashionable. It is a natural expectation. It is any other fallacy that would make it sinless. Blemishless.
The moral questions. What makes adultery less awful as compared to lesbianism? What makes the East peculiarly tolerate homosexuality and bisexuality as viewed against the eternal sin of, say, bestiality or incest?
Morals come from one: religion. God (in most religions) says bad things about homosexuality. He defines how we are supposed to have sex and with whom. In this way; piety is proscriptive against the self-will and the quintessence of curiosity that God allegedly gave man. So we become dichotomous regarding right and wrong. In the religious politics of right and wrong; religion becomes, essentially, an efficient regulator of being.
Two. Our innate human nature enables us to define what is right and wrong. Gut sense. The angel in us. Something tells a (presumably) sound human that defilement is wrong. Albeit the innate human sense reflects of some uniformity across cultures and generations. It is irredeemably subjective. Human soundness is subjective. A 'bent' person will, in his innate human sense, argue that he was born gay; or that he has become used to it till in his head and manners has achieved a threshold of moral normalcy. Same for a strait whose argument would, more often than not, be bounded by the tyranny of democracy. And history.
Three is socialization. Traditional and modern. Very few societies separate religion from formal education. I suspect that it is for the common assumption that secularizing education sucks all ethic from it. That is living the lie. Postmodern societies are persuaded that religion has no place in their tadpoles' early socialization. Culture is the host that carries education. Values. Norms. Artifacts. Tools. Trades. Et cetera.
From generation to generation. LGBT is not a value in many societies. Though it is as old as pederasty practiced in many old societies. We will almost naturally therefore detest what our fathers never taught us. Formal education especially in Africa; having been heavily fused in religion makes our appetite for liberty low; and our tolerance to the 'bents' lower.
Four. Neoculture, through the speed and rate of consumption of information. New and completely convergent cultures have emerged. Cross-cultural contact. Acculturation. Enculturation. Resocialization. Traditional and emerging media have all sexualized our lives suppressing what was thought as taboo. The lines that demarcate right and wrong in our heads are therefore getting more blurred at the speed at which we access new information. We are exposed. We are therefore gradually accepting 'alternative sexuality' in most cases, subconsciously. In which case LGBT is becoming a new level of normalcy.
In a thousand words. Religion taught me to love my neighbor. Science taught me to test God and He will understand. I cannot love that whom I haven't seen (my neighbor).
Eventually our conservative beliefs are soon overrun by time. Religion and the concept of God and hope become stunted and suffocated by our liberties to research. Mainstream religious order gradually accepts LGBT. When religious order is affright with new challenges, doomsday gets blurred, the promise of a heaven with milk and honey sublimes unto an unchecked level of moral liberty.
Having been persuaded that what I have said above is true to my nerve; I would not make a fuss about the morality of LGBT, or lack of it. Morals are agreeably necessary for survival of humanity, as well as for regulation of behaviour. But they are subjective as well.
Doomsday comes the day you die. Let these people live (or die) up to their milk and honey.
©2016 Faraj Nyanchoga
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