Questions, Questions ... The Red Pepper Persists

Kenyan Gay Man clearly had a point. If you look at the e-mail below, the editor of the Red Pepper has valid questions he is asking and, ordinarily, I would answer them – indeed I have answered these questions over the years more times than I have had hot dinners.

The problem for me now is I don’t believe the people asking the questions are sincere. Rightly or wrongly, I think all they are looking for is material to feed their tabloid frenzy and so I have refused to provide the answers. That said, I think it would be okay for other bloggers to attempt to answer them on their blogs or wherever as they are legitimate.

Here is the e-mail I got from the Red Pepper and the questions they posed [heavily emended for clarity]:

Thanks for the reply.

Well, you have not answered Phiona's question and I am sure she will maintain her opinion. I also have a feeling that you don't have an answer for it. The times I have interacted with you I have discovered that you are a clever man who cannot answer a question unless you are sure the answer is convincing.Again I tend to disagree with you when you say that homos have never done anybody physical, emotional or spiritual harm.

Without any prejudice I want to tell you that they are guilty of all the three accounts.

Count 1. If you try to drink water through the ear, you naturally spoil it because it was created by God to do the hearing function.That's physical harm.

Count 2. You said on your blog how your family was disturbed [I didn't say anything about my family on my blog, but point taken] when they discovered you were gay (Victoria also says it on her sight that her family did all they could to stop her from being unnatural but that she overpowered them. She therefore caused then emotional harm.)

You know very well how we love having grandchildren in Africa. Imagine what goes on in your parents' minds to know that you will never give them grandchildren (I am assuming that you a die-hard gay man but if you are bi, please forgive me). Vicky's people also must be having the same feeling because though she desperately wants to be a man, that can only be may be in the second world. (I don't know how effective the technology of gender changing is). At least Vicky is bolder than you and she has put her picture on her blog and in the newspapers. But for you seem to be conscious of the fact that what you are doing may not be right. So that is emotional harm.

3. Spiritual harm. You tamper with God's plan of procreation. Understand that the main reason of creating the sexual organs was procreation purposes. For you in an attempt to be very creative, you put your organs at the disposal of pleasure only (I hope it is fun).If you have radical parents, they can start questioning God as to why he gave them such a child. I know parents of a gay boy who visited scores of witchdoctors thinking that their child had been bewitched.I can give you as many reasons as possible. I hope you are an objective gentleman who looks at things objectively.

One last example,if somebody eats a body of a person who has died and has been buried away deep in the soil, such a person is condemned by society and can be chased away from the village or arrested. Would argue that the relatives of the dead person should have left him in the house if they loved him/her so much and never wanted him eaten up and the scavenging cannibal is innocent? Society wouldn't look at things that way. That's why many people can't understand homos. The things they do are unnatural and you know it.

But anyway, everyone have their weaknesses like over-drinking,over-smoking, prostitution and these day's shoplifting as a hobby and not because of need. That, it is argued, is what being human is about. But then it becomes absurd when the owner of the weakness tries to defend it as a good thing and that they should be left alone to pursue their weird ways.

All the best.

Editor