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On Tuesday, the Senate voted to ban gay marriages in the surroundings. The proposed bill would also criminalise gay advocacy groups and public displays of liking between people of the same sex.
To start with, our dear lawmakers had better define conspicuous display of affection. If I am arrested for hugging and kissing my girl pal enthusiastically on the cheek in blatant, I will scream blue murder. Girls, especially in university minister to to do this in passing. If there is any sexuality attached to it, then it should be analysed subjectively and not in general. But then, I am prospering off-point; or maybe not.
Earlier in the year, when a coalition of gay activists was advocating gay alliance, I was stuck in wonder. Really, gay marriage now when homosexuality still remains a tough offence in Nigeria? I thought it was a case of putting the cart before the horse, and getting carried away by events incident on the international scene.
First, seek to decriminalise homosexuality on the basis of human rights, discretion of choice before you seek the legalisation of marriage between people of the same sex. At least that was the way the Americans, who Nigerian gays and their supporters are being accused of copying, did it. The gays in America first fought for the manumission of expression, before they talked of marrying each other.
Source: Daily Times Nigeria (blog)