Anglican Church Members Now Take Anti-homosexuality Oath

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZnOx2-NRCTyDHipfbSU2t-ZfzNBvcG0fvTqltu5WcqzSCdvIpDlobCV9cFMyPbzFFwv6BLsqnSFvVwovbeccQwE_4JlZ5k15Hn4iTkB5V48rRV6llLk21pAueEzWUd_SmFCKYEExSbQC/s1600/000000000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZnOx2-NRCTyDHipfbSU2t-ZfzNBvcG0fvTqltu5WcqzSCdvIpDlobCV9cFMyPbzFFwv6BLsqnSFvVwovbeccQwE_4JlZ5k15Hn4iTkB5V48rRV6llLk21pAueEzWUd_SmFCKYEExSbQC/s1600/000000000.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Members of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) are now to carry out an oath exercise denouncing any trace or affiliation for homosexuality before they can take up any leadership position in the church. The church which has over the years held strong opposition against homosexuality included this oath taking into its constitution recently.</span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday, the first oath-taking against homosexuality was conducted at the St. Matthews, Maitama, Abuja branch when new members of the Parish Church Council were sworn in by the Vicar of the Parish, Ven. Ben Idume.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>The oath taken text reads</span></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"I declare before God and his Church that I have never been a homosexual/bisexual or (have repented from being homosexual/bisexual) and I vow that I will not indulge in the practice of homosexuality/bisexuality. “If after this oath I am involved, found to be, or profess to be a homosexual/bisexual against the teachings of the Holy Scriptures as contained in the Bible, I bring upon myself the full wrath of God and subject myself willingly to canonical discipline as enshrined in the constitution of the Church of Nigeria, so help me God".</span></blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">While administering the oath, Vicar Idume stressed that henceforth no one who has any trace of homosexuality or bisexuality will be allowed to take up any leadership role in the church.</span></div> <br />

Anglican Church Members Now Take Anti-homosexuality Oath

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Finally! Seun Kuti Speaks Against Anti-gay Bill.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbmemxKz5e1VWcKxg-tYjCmUXYSM89j-52NkVKn6XpPeETxlnloWTjjOKqlPLVhDrXdQ0j2OeDWuypbwmjkAtFUttScqIix6E-Qfj3Ic3s8VxpFIXP5SS5PC7O-C9D_GkwLFWAAOg55MlZ/s1600/seun-kuti-why-i-think-the-gay-community-should-come-out-715x402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbmemxKz5e1VWcKxg-tYjCmUXYSM89j-52NkVKn6XpPeETxlnloWTjjOKqlPLVhDrXdQ0j2OeDWuypbwmjkAtFUttScqIix6E-Qfj3Ic3s8VxpFIXP5SS5PC7O-C9D_GkwLFWAAOg55MlZ/s1600/seun-kuti-why-i-think-the-gay-community-should-come-out-715x402.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti writes for </span><a href="http://www.okayafrica.com/2014/02/05/seun-kuti-why-i-think-the-gay-community-should-come-out/" style="background-color: white; color: #b41e20; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px; text-decoration: none;">OkayAfrica.com</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">. Find it below...</span></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;"> I’m writing to condemn the recent anti-gay bill signed into law by our President Jonathan Goodluck. This law – which contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison for anyone in a same-sex marriage or civil union, 10 years for anyone who attends a same-sex wedding, 10 years for anyone involved with an LGBT organization, and even 10 years for anyone who shows affection for someone of the same sex – should be cast out. Since the law was passed, police across Nigeria have begun arresting and torturing dozens of our fellow citizens suspected of being gay. Don’t forget that in some of our states, if you are found guilty of being gay, you could be stoned to death.</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;"> First of all, this law was unnecessary. There is not space in the existing constitution for gay marriage. Our constitution is very definitive of marriage as a union between man and woman. I see the signing in of this law for what it was: a cheap shot by an under-achieving government to discriminate against people because they are different.<br /><a href="" name="more"></a></blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">The president of Nigeria has a PhD, so he should understand better than most the implications of the law. Even if he couldn’t stop the senate from passing the bill, he had the power to delay signing it as a way of protecting the gay community. The President has had the Petroleum Industry Bill in front of him for years, and he and our senators have stalled on the bill calling for harsher punishment for corruption. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s senate has just sanctioned pedophilia in our constitution (girls that are as young as 9 years old can continue to be married in if they are “physically developed enough” according to their parents or prospective husbands) – so this the ban on homosexuality can hardly be a so-called “moral” issue. This is simply a move for cheap political points. Meanwhile, people’s lives hang in the balance.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">Today I am writing this not as a fight for “gay rights”, I am fighting for all rights. People should be allowed to express themselves freely and this includes their sexuality. I believe all gay people should come out and organize openly. I expect that society should allow them live their lives as they please.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">It’s not a cultural thing – it’s a sexual thing. I have even heard people say it’s Western culture imposed on us and if the West doesn’t recognize polygamy we should not accept homosexuality. This is the kind of scary ignorance that this kind of law will foster. (I can say for a fact that the constitution of Nigeria does not recognize polygamy. We have customary laws that are non-binding, but our secular courts and national constitution does not allow polygamy even though it’s “our culture.”)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">I believe in education as the answer to any problem and I know this law does not educate positively. It just criminalizes and institutionalizes hate towards the gay community.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">Here’s a call to action: I believe the gay community should come out! They need to put love above fear. I also believe that gay people in Africa not just Nigeria who are being targeted like this should put pressure on the West by claiming asylum in their countries. I think we are about to see a new wave of sexual refugees!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">Love over fear should be the way forward.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.513513565063477px; line-height: 27.327327728271484px;">-Seun Kuti</span></div> <br />

Finally! Seun Kuti Speaks Against Anti-gay Bill.

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See Movie Director Dickson Iroegbu's Reaction To Anti-gay Law

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This Is A Critical Time For All LGBTI - Gay Reverend Jide Macaulay

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsclZHPX8KZNed0J6KzYWb7zpu4s20X3EqNjvQKGuICGEKgK9zCVrNTkDFf53uk2omb4_ZpYBsncTztl2_ClUcT0sdgunvNwE4OOKF2HXwa3f5Ek9lImk8IxYNw-2AhXnLJt4rFFYESFB6/s1600/gay.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsclZHPX8KZNed0J6KzYWb7zpu4s20X3EqNjvQKGuICGEKgK9zCVrNTkDFf53uk2omb4_ZpYBsncTztl2_ClUcT0sdgunvNwE4OOKF2HXwa3f5Ek9lImk8IxYNw-2AhXnLJt4rFFYESFB6/s1600/gay.JPG" width="496" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Gay Reverend Jide Macaulay is the Founder and Project Director of House Of Rainbow Fellowship. The man yesterday wrote to vanguard where he said after President Jonathan singed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill 2013 into law, he has been receiving so many calls, emails and online messages expressing fear, anger, anxiety and suicide attempts.  Here is what he wrote to </span><a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/anti-gay-law-gay-pastor-rowland-writes-saturday-vanguard/" style="background-color: white; color: #ab2422; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">Vanguard</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> On January 7th, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill 2013 into law. The law bans same sex marriage, and through its wording, also seeks to criminalise people, organisations and agencies who support homosexuality and those who do not immediately report any known homosexuals, or homosexual activities.<br /> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5438533803477296299" name="more"></a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> Since January12th, when the announcement was made, the LGBT-community has been thrown into panic. There is chaos throughout Nigeria as we are grappling with keeping up with mass arbitrary arrest, humiliation, blackmail, extortion and police corruption in several ‘charge and bail’ cases.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> The hostility in Nigeria against gay people has reached epic proportions. In the East of Nigeria, many are fleeing their homes. One gay man, labelled “a leader of the homosexual” is on the run. His parents and brother were threatened with arrest if they don’t provide information about his whereabouts.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> In the same region, more than six people were arrested. In the West of the country, we can confirm that nearly ten people have been arrested and bailed. The police have extorted funds from each victim at an average of between $120 to $300. Most of the people arrested were tortured and asked to provide additional details of other gays or lesbians. In the North of Nigeria, in Bauchi and Kano, there are two separate cases of arrests and harassment of gay people. Both areas are firmly under sharia law, which carries the death penalty.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> In the wake of the passing of the anti gay laws, there is no doubt of the many calls, emails and online messages we have received, expressing fear, anger, anxiety and suicide attempts. This is a critical time for all LGBTI-people; a time when our ideals are being stretched and tested.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> The Nigerian President and legislators have ignored the critical aspect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and passed into law a legislation that is unjust.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> In a BBC Radio program yesterday, I spoke out to condemn this law. However, a few of the speakers claimed that a research showed that 98% of Nigerians are happy and jubilant about this law, and based on their religious beliefs that homosexuality is “unafrican”, against religion and unnatural.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> Nigeria like many African nations, has many issues and the oppression of LGBT-citizens is largely unwelcomed by an already marginalised group. We are now looking into our first priority intervention to help those displaced and or attacked.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> In view of the present situation in Nigeria, we are helping with emergency evacuation to safe homes around the country. The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs), a Human Rights Organisation in Nigeria, has now opened a 24hr support line for LGBT-people in Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> We also continue to advise all LGBT-people to stay away from trouble, not pick unknown phone numbers and sign off gay dating websites.</div> <br />

This Is A Critical Time For All LGBTI - Gay Reverend Jide Macaulay

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Catholic Bishop Commends President Goodluck On Anti-gay Law

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXB9qkPhZc1z0uAxHjmcCeAcIN48UAdSBHvA568LQjZFLqgSD1CuBOJcpclArr2rYZQ5MkelsiemUBkJ4b2FTk-Mub-0eEoNHJ8aEdCwPKq8lMoSze9IYQbftLChWvSM3D7JAv5B-ewhnq/s1600/x-mas_kukah-mathew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXB9qkPhZc1z0uAxHjmcCeAcIN48UAdSBHvA568LQjZFLqgSD1CuBOJcpclArr2rYZQ5MkelsiemUBkJ4b2FTk-Mub-0eEoNHJ8aEdCwPKq8lMoSze9IYQbftLChWvSM3D7JAv5B-ewhnq/s1600/x-mas_kukah-mathew.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Social critic, commentator and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah,  has commended President Jonathan for the express signing into law of the anti-gay bill that would criminalize all forms of same sex relationships in Nigeria.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">He expressed his approval and delight with the signing into law at a media round table held in Sokoto State. He also expressed his gratitude to the National Assembly for expediting action on the bill.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The bishop said; "I also want to commend the National Assembly for the zeal and enthusiasm with which they passed the bill. As far as I am concerned, anybody who lives in Nigeria and most parts of Africa knows that culturally, religiously and morally, this is not our life and culture".</span></div> <br />

Catholic Bishop Commends President Goodluck On Anti-gay Law

Social critic, commentator and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah,  has commended President Jonathan for the e...

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