HOMOSEXUALITY REVISITED – Part I

Homosexuality (from Ancient Greek ὁμός, meaning “same”, and Latin sexus, meaning “sex”) is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is “an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions” to people of the same sex. It “also refers to a person’s sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.”

Event

Uganda is ranked as one of the worst place in the world to be gay, this does not mean that it is free of homosexuality nor homosexuals. It just means that majority of Ugandans are not for the practice…and am one of those who are opposed to the business. There is an undocumented history of homosexuality in Uganda (central region), and its roots are tied to missionaries and monarchies. Since then the nation has suffered the practice in sports (football), entertainment, schools (from primary schools to universities), churches (all denominations), industries, and government institutions (prisons, hospitals,). I have written much about homosexuality and am not yet to stop but today I want us to look at it from a different view point.

Religion, the Bible and Decision Making

News reaching my table witness that on the 14th of January 2016 archbishop Stanley Ntagali walked out of the world Anglican primates meeting in the United States over leniency (indirect compromise) of fellow members on the homosexuality issue. According to the Ugandan archbishop’s statement he said he left because he felt like he was going to be manipulated after lobbing fellow leaders to vote against the agenda and they all turned out “indifferent” (not “No” nor “Yes”).

I think the archbishop did the right thing, except for a few facts: first the archbishop must understand that the Anglican (Church) religion like any other established institutional religion is an Anglican (western) and not African institution. Every established religion has its god-fathers who make ultimate decisions and determine direction. All these African bishops are but station managers who cannot decide for the institution but for themselves. These western godfathers organize religious international meetings and invite poor Africans to bless and rubber-stamp their decisions.

Archbishop Ntagali won’t change a thing about the international Anglican church position on homosexuality and homosexuals in the Anglican institution. Whether he walks out, exercises defiance etc…the institution will vote the majority versus minority way…and to be polite they will conclude by ruling: “let those dioceses that are comfortable tolerate homosexuality and those who can’t then maintain their position”. Same resolution that was given by the Seventh-Day Adventist institution on the issue of Women Ordination.

Let me as a Theologian and a Christian Philosopher inform you whoever is an adherent and registered member (or even worker like archbishop Ntagali) of these institutions. A religious institution is a coin that represents two masters. Religious institutions are political-money generating agents whose core mission is politics (the science of managing societies)…and it is this mission that is baptized by the name: CHURCH. It is by this banner: “CHURCH” that these institutions mobilise and attract people to them…but when it comes to core decisions, these institutions do not use the Bible…and that is why honest followers of the word of God like Ntagali default these institutions.

Poor archbishop (according to his statement) thought his church was going to go biblical on the matter of dealing with homosexuality…and little did he know that this largely political institution and less a church (ecclesiology) was considering the big picture (homosexuality as a culture) as opposed to his view of (homosexuality as a habit). Archbishop Ntagali ought to have learnt from President Museven who is opposed to the practice and who never signed the homosexuality bill, but hibernated after a few international attention to his behavior.

Archbishop Ntagali as a minister of the gospel shouldn’t think that he can walk out of the Anglican international policy making meetings and still claim to be Anglican…it is a historical truth that: WHOEVER PROTESTS THE SYSTEM LEAVES IT…THERE IS NOTHING LIKE INTERNAL PROTESTANTISM…the bishop should rectify his position as a person and communicate his position as the archbishop.

Otherwise homosexuality is here to stay as long as MONEY and POWER, and the LOVE of money and power stays with us.

I T WHITE
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