Gaysm Is Turning Our Boys Into ‘’Creamy Damsels’’

The death of Edwin Chiloba and the revelation of his activism for gay rights has sparked a noisy and structured ‘babel’ but the interesting online conversation over the past few weeks. The legislative arm of the government has not been left behind in this conversation.

While some members of parliament like Mohamed Ali of Nyali constituency and Mishi Mboko of Likoni have come out gun blazing against gay rights, some legislators like Nairobi women representative Esther Passaris are not clear on their stand.

The struggle in her tweet to strike a balance as to support or be against gay rights speaks volume of her state of mind. Nevertheless, Passaris made her point; she supports gay rights na mtado?

While there have been calls more especially from the Muslim community to shun gay rights and the rise of LGBTQ in the otherwise known as a Christian nation, Kenya, the movement is slowly gaining momentum in the country and maybe very soon they would have muscled weight and no one will dare engage them.

There are two reasons that are clearly coming out for those opposing the LGBTQ movement in Kenya; Religion and culture.

While responding to CNN’s Amanpour president Ruto just like his predecessor stated that the conversation on LGBTQ is not a priority for Kenya. The president said that currently, the country is struggling with drought, unemployment and debt burden.

It takes a keen eye to notice a gap in his answer, a gap that can be used in the future or even now to have this conversation. At a time like this when those promoting gay rights like Edwin Chiloba are murdered, face online bullying, threatened and disowned by their community why not have this conversation? These are but some of the issues that will necessitate the conversation on gay rights in this country.

 It is clear that the president didn’t oppose gay rights. When you say that an issue is not a priority it does not negate the underpinning of the cardinal nature of the issue at hand.

In some cases, as it is with African leaders, society is reluctant to freely discuss the underlying debate revolving around the LGBT massacre that has bedeviled societal well-being. The issue is not whether the African society and its leadership will accept LGBTQ but When?

The gravity of this issue is that the gay culture has crept in our beds and is turning our handsome men like Edwin Chiloba into ‘’creamy damsels’’. Poor young men are falling prey to this biting culture benumbing their long cherished morals of the African culture, Christian and Muslim religion.

Don’t you think it is time we paused and asked those enjoying the LGBTQ ‘’pleasure’’ what they are seeing that we are not seeing? Maybe there needs to be more revelations on this very issue. This is because there is scanty information about this culture.

It will be interesting to watch whether the strength of our moral fabrics and religious beliefs will be overwhelmed by this movement that is swiping across the continent changing and shaping society in a way that we can only marvel. Will our anchor hold when this tide rises or we will only be left shouting at the top of our lungs as these LGBTQ soldiers have their way?