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Even Satan was and still is not gay
Satan or the Devil is no stranger to us and in fact the name Satan or the Devil is synonymous with evil, wicked, dangerous, unholy and what have you.
Right from children to adults, everybody is aware of the existence of Satan or Devil and nobody wants to be associated with that name because it is not something to be proud of.
Bible makes us to understand in Genesis Chapter 3 that Satan approached Eve and chatted with her to convince her to go against the instructions of God. An interesting question arises as to why Satan did not approach Adam but instead approached Eve who by the way was naked, and not Adam who was also naked.
This raises several interesting points for academic discussions and depending on which point of view you take, can be fascinating in the light of current national discussion regarding the phenomenon of homosexuality.
Some people are of the view point that even Satan was not gay since he was attracted by the sheer beauty of Eve hence his desire to go to her first to chat with her in order to convince her to go against God.
Again in Genesis chapter 6:2 the Bible says”…the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose.” These were the fallen angels who teamed up with Satan to rebel against God and came down to earth.
When they came down and saw the ladies on earth, they realised what they had been missing in heaven, not to sound blasphemous and were attracted to them and decided to marry them.
Even rebellious angels were not gay and did not consider homosexuality a good thing they should engage in, so why should humans created in the image of God even dream about such an evil, senseless and disgusting act?
This gay and lesbian and the whole LGBTQI phenomenon is something that is so sad and the people who are engaged in it are obviously, mentally very sick.
In one of my articles I made a statement to the effect that if you see a person, taking food from the gutter and eating it with glee, you do not have to possess a degree in psychology to know that there is something very wrong with the mind of that person.
I am yet to see a he goat or a male dog so filled with lust that it goes to have sex with another he goat or male dog. It is common knowledge that gay people wear pampers. Pampers are supposed to be worn by children who are designed to soil themselves during the early stages of their development.
After a few years, they are no longer given pampers to wear because they can attend to call of nature on their own. Why anyone would want to continue in the ridiculous activity of homosexuality still beats my imagination.
It is believed that people engaged in homosexuality pick up this habit at an early age especially in their adolescent years. If this is the case, then our agencies responsible for content of films on TV and various media outlets have to be extra vigilant because, the idea of man and man as well as woman and woman making love is subtly being promoted through cartoons, movies, videos etc.
Everything possible must be done to ensure that young people are not hoodwinked into believing that homosexuality is an acceptable way of life. It never was and never will be because it is an abomination to God and it was for its prevalence in Sodom and Gomorrah that led to their destruction by God according to the Bible.
Some people are trying to justify homosexuality on the basis that some people have a different sexual orientation but nothing like that has been scientifically proven. It cannot, therefore, be said to be a human rights issue as the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights upheld years back.
Just as someone cannot claim that he or she was born a thief and, therefore, must not be found guilty after stealing, same is the case for someone claiming that he was born a homosexual and must be set free when caught engaging in it in Ghana.
Every nation has its culture and that must be respected by our development partners and they must not try to blackmail our leaders into accepting a culture that is alien to the African and the Ghanaian to be specific.
Again everybody knows that when we say marriage, it is the union between a man and a woman and we must not tolerate the adulteration of that word to mean anything different.
The funny thing is that the people who make the argument about human rights are themselves guilty of flouting the human rights of children, by putting in place legislation that allows homosexuals to adopt babies in countries such as France, thereby depriving children the choice of knowing that, it is not normal for two men or two women to become a family and have children in the process.
What must be advocated, is the prevention of hatred towards people suspected to be homosexuals and that people must not take the laws into their own hands in dealing with such people. Just as we do not attack mad people, in the same vein we should not attack people suspected of homosexuality.
They rather deserve our sympathies and ways of offering counseling services must be sought for them instead of attacking them. The nation must put its support behind the coalition against homosexuality in Ghana so that a clear message would be sent to those practising it and those about to engage in it, is to have a change of mind.
We hear of stories of Pastors who have slept with other people’s wives and have been caught and they claim that it was the Devil who tempted them. This is something I do not accept and I believe it is simply a lack of self-discipline.
Since we do not know what happens in the spiritual realm, let us give them the benefit of doubt that Satan, indeed, tempted them.
If that is the case then it means Satan himself has looked at something and has been attracted by it in the woman and has concluded that he can focus the Pastor’s mind on the same thing to cause him to fall into temptation. Conclusion is that even Satan is not gay so why should a human created in the image of God be gay?
Laud Kissi-Mensah
The writer is a social commentator
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Tears of Ghanaman, home and abroad
The typical native of Sikaman is by nature a hospitable creature, a social animal with a big heart, a soul full of the milk of earthly goodness, and a spirit too loving for its own comfort.
Ghanaman hosts a foreign pal and he spends a fortune to make him very happy and comfortable-good food, clean booze, excellent accommodation and a woman for the night.
Sometimes the pal leaves without saying a “thank you but Ghanaman is not offended. He’d host another idiot even more splendidly. His nature is warm, his spirit benevolent. That is the typical Ghanaian and no wonder that many African-Americans say, “If you haven’t visited Ghana. Then you’ve not come to Africa.
You can even enter the country without a passport and a visa and you’ll be welcomed with a pot of palm wine.
If Ghanaman wants to go abroad, especially to an European country or the United States, it is often after an ordeal.
He has to doze in a queue at dawn at the embassy for days and if he is lucky to get through to being interviewed, he is confronted by someone who claims he or she has the power of discerning truth from lie.
In short Ghanaman must undergo a lie-detector test and has to answer questions that are either nonsensical or have no relevance to the trip at hand. When Joseph Kwame Korkorti wanted a visa to an European country, the attache studied Korkorti’s nose for a while and pronounced judgment.
“The way I see you, you won’t return to Ghana if I allow you to go. Korkorti nearly dislocated her jaw; Kwasiasem akwaakwa. In any case what had Korkorti’s nose got to do with the trip?
If Ghanaman, after several attempts, manages to get the visa and lands in the whiteman’s land, he is seen as another monkey uptown, a new arrival of a degenerate ape coming to invade civilized society. He is sneered at, mocked at and avoided like a plague. Some landlords abroad will not hire their rooms to blacks because they feel their presence in itself is bad business.
When a Sikaman publisher landed overseas and was riding in a public bus, an urchin who had the impudence and notoriety of a dead cockroach told his colleagues he was sure the black man had a tail which he was hiding in his pair of trousers. He didn’t end there. He said he was in fact going to pull out the tail for everyone to see.
True to his word he went and put his hand into the backside of the bewildered publisher, intent on grabbing his imaginary tail and pulling it out. It took a lot of patience on the part of the publisher to avert murder. He practically pinned the white miscreant on the floor by the neck and only let go when others intervene. Next time too…
The way we treat our foreign guests in comparison with the way they treat us is polar contrasting-two disparate extremes, one totally incomparable to the other. They hound us for immigration papers, deport us for overstaying and skinheads either target homes to perpetrate mayhem or attack black immigrants to gratify their racial madness
When these same people come here we accept them even more hospitably than our own kin. They enter without visas, overstay, impregnate our women and run away.
About half of foreigners in this country do not have valid resident permits and was not a bother until recently when fire was put under the buttocks of the Immigration Service
In fact, until recently I never knew Sikaman had an Immigration Service. The problem is that although their staff look resplendent in their green outfit, you never really see them anywhere. You’d think they are hidden from the public eye.
The first time I saw a group of them walking somewhere, I nearly mistook them for some sixth-form going to the library. Their ladies are pretty though.
So after all, Sikaman has an Immigration Service which I hear is now alert 24 hours a day tracking down illegal aliens and making sure they bound the exit via Kotoka International. A pat on their shoulder.
I am glad the Interior Ministry has also realised that the country has been too slack about who goes out or comes into Sikaman.
Now the Ministry has warned foreigners not to take the country’s commitment to its obligations under the various conditions as a sign of weakness or a source for the abuse of her hospitality.
“Ghana will not tolerate any such abuse,” Nii Okaija Adamafio, the Interior Minister said, baring his teeth and twitching his little moustache. He was inaugurating the Ghana Refugee and Immigration Service Boards.
He said some foreigners come in as tourists, investors, consultants, skilled workers or refugees. Others come as ‘charlatans, adventurers or plain criminals. “
Yes, there are many criminals among them. Our courts have tried a good number of them for fraud and misconduct.
It is time we welcome only those who would come and invest or tour and go back peacefully and not those whose criminal intentions are well-hidden but get exposed in due course of time.
This article was first published on Saturday March 14, 1998
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Decisions have consequences
In this world, it is always important to recognise that every action or decision taken, has consequences.
It can result in something good or bad, depending on the quality of the decision, that is, the factors that were taken into account in the decision making.
The problem with a bad decision is that, in some instances, there is no opportunity to correct the result even though you have regretted the decision, which resulted in the unpleasant outcome.
This is what a friend of mine refers to as having regretted an unregretable regret. After church last Sunday, I was watching a programme on TV and a young lady was sharing with the host, how a bad decision she took, had affected her life immensely and adversely.
She narrated how she met a Caucasian and she got married to him. The white man arranged for her to join him after the marriage and processes were initiated for her to join her husband in UK. It took a while for the requisite documentation to be procured and during this period, she took a decision that has haunted her till date.
According to her narration, she met a man, a Ghanaian, who she started dating, even though she was a married woman.
After a while her documents were ready and so she left to join her husband abroad without breaking off the unholy relationship with the man from Ghana.
After she got to UK, this man from Ghana, kept pressuring her to leave the white man and return to him in Ghana. The white man at some point became a bit suspicious and asked about who she has been talking on the phone with for long spells, and she lied to him that it was her cousin.
Then comes the shocker. After the man from Ghana had sweet talked her continuously for a while, she decided to leave her husband and return to Ghana after only three weeks abroad.
She said, she asked the guy to swear to her that he would take care of both her and her mother and the guy swore to take good care of her and her mother as well as rent a 3-bedroom flat for her. She then took the decision to leave her husband and return to Ghana.
She told her mum that she was returning to Ghana to marry the guy in Ghana. According to her, her mother vigorously disagreed with her decision and wept.
She further added that her mum told her brother and they told her that they were going to tell her husband about her intentions.
According to her, she threatened that if they called her husband to inform him, then she would commit suicide, an idea given to her by the boyfriend in Ghana.
Her mum and brother afraid of what she might do, agreed not to tell her husband. She then told her husband that she was returning to Ghana to attend her Grandmother’s funeral.
The husband could not understand why she wanted to go back to Ghana after only three weeks stay so she had to lie that in their tradition, grandchildren are required to be present when the grandmother dies and is to be buried.
She returned to Ghana; the flat turns into a chamber and hall accommodation, the promise to take care of her mother does not materialise and generally she ends up furnishing the accommodation herself. All the promises given her by her boyfriend, turned out to be just mere words.
A phone the husband gave her, she left behind in UK out of guilty conscience knowing she was never coming back to UK.
Through that phone and social media, the husband found out about his boyfriend and that was the end of her marriage.
Meanwhile, things have gone awry here in Ghana and she had regretted and at a point in her narration, was trying desperately to hold back tears. Decisions indeed have consequences.
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