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By Davy Fidel, Freelancer
AIl over the news, there are several reports that governments are enacting laws against the LGBT community; haunting down Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans-sexual people's freedom of sexual rights. These laws are totally against the right of people choosing not to be conventional, but off the hook of dogmatic cultural lifestyle forced to live. It is a law, according to LGBT activists, autocratic in nature and abuse of their democratic rights.
In Poland, for example, reports have it that the government has come out strong to pull the trigger. They have made it clear on their stand. And the religious institutions have also declared to stand behind the anti-LGBT laws. Their view is that it is contradictory to the morals of society and unhealthy, for people to engaged in such an abominable act, according to the Catholic Church and other religious authorities.
More so, news reports have also added that the government in Europe is in unison to clamp down on recent demonstrations. They are all speaking in the same language of attacking the LGBT community; using it as a popular slogan to rally around popular support from religious institutions and extremists. Recent demonstrations in some parts of Europe are demanding the government to respect the right of gays, lesbians, etc freedom of sexual rights.
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But these so-called governments felt otherwise. They believe that same-sex marriage and unconventional sex are prohibited, and they should be rusticated from human society. That, it is not allowed in modern-day society to have its way especially where, according to religious institutions, contravene morality, as reiterated. However, freedom of sexual rights is evolutionary. It is natural, not cultural.
The right to be gay, lesbian, etc is a fundamental human right. It is a democratic rights that cannot be culture or be seen as contraband. Scientifically, human nature is complex and cannot be nurtured to act in a certain way. Therefore, if people prefer to have mutuality with same-sex, it is their right. The government doesn't have to place the band on it or begin to attack people, who choose to go the other way to express their sexual desire.
But what is taking place now all over the so-called democratic states is that pro-capitalist governments and politicians are out with canon shot enacting anti-LGBT laws, under the disguised of social morals. African leaders are also not excerpted from the attack on democratic rights and freedom of sexual rights. Confirmed reports have shown how persons who are gay, lesbian, and bisexual are molested, arrested, and punished pronouncing they are LGBT.
Uganda is one case to referred and other African countries that have enacted anti-LGBT. Come out brutal against it. Despite the claim of Gayism, Lesbianism is a myth in African society before colonialism, according to government propagandists. However, President Yoweri Museveni confirms it when he said, “Homosexuals in small numbers have always existed in our part of black Africa … They were never prosecuted. They were never discriminated.”(Aljazeera, 26/4/2014).
While this fact is noted and several others, confirms it is not a myth. Meanwhile, the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" signed by the Museveni government is one among the hundreds witnessed as propaganda. Since this bill, hundreds of people have been arrested and the Museveni-led government then had used it to score cheap popularity among people in Uganda. Also, win political and religious support against the rise of LGBT activists.
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A similar situation took place in Nigeria under the Goodluck administration. The government then declared it was "14 years' jail for gay relationships" according to Guardian (London), 13 Jan 2014. That year, the government was making huge returns from crude oil sales, but realistically, poverty is on the rise, followed by the deepening living conditions of the poor masses. This was before the 2015 election that saw the PDP defeated. Perhaps, the replacement hasn't solved the problem, however, is worsening it.
Politically, the government needed to distract the Nigerian masses from its failed policies. Therefore, it decided to join in the charade of declaring an open battle with the LGBT community. The president then said, "persons who enter into a same-sex marriage contract or civil union commit an offense and are each liable on conviction to a term of 14 years in prison." This was used as a strategic way to present the government as a populist among people.
However, the case is different. The Gay, Lesbian, Trans-sexual, and Bisexual movement growing in Europe and across the continent, are seen as threats that must be clampdown. That must be rusticated from modern cultural society claimed democratic, which is embedded in an indoctrinated tradition that religious institutions have continually presented as harm to human morality. They have continued to decide the direction of human evolvement.
Governments have shifted from the economic realities that shipwreck better life for people. Rather, they have launch propaganda, campaigns against why people shouldn't live in. Big corporate organizations and capitalist moguls, the government protects in business, believe democratic rights must not be extended to such people. Therefore, enacted anti-LGBT laws will help to imprison as some big corporate politicians have argued.
Fundamentally, people should begin to realize that the LGBT movement is not the primary cause of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, violation of democratic rights, inequalities, etc but the big corporate capitalism, responsible for what millions of poor people pass through. Rather than joining pro-capitalist politicians to divide the oppressed. The fight to end war, oppression, and poverty should be the ultimate task for the working people to replace capitalism via a socialist plan society.
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