WHAT IF YOU'RE #GAY?

“My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight”…Agave Powers

Genesis

I’d say that I don’t really know where to start from, but then I remember saying the same thing to a wise man sometime ago and his simple reply to me was ‘start from the beginning my son’, like I was there. Well, here goes the familiar intro. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. Do you get the message as you span through the rich content and poetry that is entirely worth conveying serious message? Of course, according to perhaps the oldest and most popular book in the world and as witnessed by all of history, with the Holy Bible, it ironically gets better from the beginning piece when we fast forward to the Adam and Eve union, the recommended, sane and natural order of things, of life.

“The Lord is my shepherd and he knows I’m gay”…Troy Perry

Evolution

It is such an interesting world we live in, the more our population grows, so are the tendencies of good and evil to multiply, that’s actually simple mathematics, more like probability. In essence, in as much as a simple act of good can spread with a ripple effect causing extended reverberation, same thing applies to any act of evil.

Each day we increase in knowledge and we learn from our mistakes, we get more understanding, we become more aware and by implication we voraciously experiment on mysteries that we have yet to experience. The good part is that we have been able to adapt to the harsh conditions of mother earth and we have been able to survive through good use of our brain, helping us invent and discover things such as devices and drugs that have helped us sustain our lives.

Even with the ways in which we have developed the world, we have made mistakes that have burned our hands in several ways, for instance we have invented fast cars, airplanes, trains and ship for better transport and haulage, but many lives have been lost through them due to man’s errors of imperfection or bad weather and  poor topography. Also we have invented guns and bombs that have caused more casualty than we actually know. We have invented drugs and food preservatives through modern technology, but as you realize that we are not perfect, some drugs and preservatives are basically poisons and have caused series of diseases, ending millions of lives and plunging us into further avoidable crisis and insecurities.

The seeming hopeless realities on ground seduces us when we are sane, and pushes us when we are drunk to another level of experimentation perhaps borne out of freedom, boredom and apparent depression.

“If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them”…Author unknown.

Ages

A school of thought tells us that a good knowledge of history really does bring us up to better speed than the present situation we are in. Speaking about ages, the evolution of man has tumbled us right from the stone age when men struck stones together to make fire, to the agrarian age also called the agricultural age when man knew and appreciated the power of the earth to multiply whatever was planted, this produced the industrial revolution when the agricultural produce was processed massively.

Then followed by the information or the jet age, a period when information flies with the speed of light, if not faster. It has however become imperative for us to slow down to catch our breath; this is because many nations are stuck in this age, while some haven’t even gotten there. Impressively though, some have clearly surpassed the information age to a whole new level which some may never attain, the wisdom age.

This is the zone of developed nations; they have gracefully scaled all previous stages only to replicate those stages or ages in lower or the so called developing nations.

“What’s the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?”…Rita Mae Brown

Are you gay?

So how does all these mambo jumbo concern homosexuality or gay-ish as pretty much young info-age folks would say you might ask?

Let’s put it this way. Do you have a sibling or a nutty cousin that is allergic to a type of food that you actually love? For instance, I love scrambled eggs with my life, but there is this sarcastic cousin of mine that would practically throw-up if he tasted it. Now imagine what a hungry Somali kid would do if he saw a large bowl of scrambled eggs, I think he’ll almost eat the plate itself. What if he was allergic to the scrambled eggs for real? I believe the law of priority would rather he satisfied his hunger than allergy.

In reference to the ‘Ages’ section above, too much convenience, indulgence and potential complacence of the folks occupying the wisdom age leaves them bored and simply want to move to another level. Remember nature abhors vacuum, and our systems virtually crave for inconvenience in the middle of over-bearing luxury.

However, a point to carefully note here is that all the seeming alibis are not a justification, moral or otherwise to prove complete understanding of how the world works, we are humans right?

So are you gay?

Perhaps you can find out when you are left vulnerable in a correctional facility, kidnapped by those that can over-power you and do the act, seduced with large sums of money when you’re stranded or extremely brainwashed by heartbroken and depressed folks that don’t care whatever happens to their image, life is short anyways.

The point is that we are all extremely vulnerable and are naturally adaptable to influences of prevailing circumstances; therefore it is probably unfair to judge genuine cases of psychologically forced transitions or scientifically proven genetic anomaly (which was of course most probably caused by our ungodly interference with nature). This also is not a window to give good reason for the act as majority don’t admire sodomy, and it goes against the natural order of things.

 As we also know that kids grow by imitation, it isn’t fair to confuse the up-coming generation and alter destinies with incorrigibility and acts borne of lack of supervision, discipline and morality.

African countries and leaders have recently seriously criticized President Obama for publicly supporting and promoting gay rights and even trying to export it to the highly cultured African continent that have violently kicked against it as it goes against her traditions.

Obviously, majority of people would definitely frown at any act of violence, but given that the world is very volatile when complex issues such as politics, religion and the gay thing come up, where we presently live in gives a vivid description of what is left of a world that we don't entirely understand. It is sure heart breaking to see that people are being tortured and even murdered because they are gay, perhaps a more creative approach should be made other than legalizing it if it is generally perceived as a problem.

President Obama constantly implores for fair treatment for gay people categorizing their discrimination with racism. It has even become awkward to be attracted to someone with the ‘old school’ love at first sight because you may just be falling in love with the same sex as you; this is due to the sharp rise in transgender population. This has further prompted the question 'is President Obama gay? And if he is and the world finds out about it, would he be proud to share the information, or would he be ashamed about it? With due respect, sometimes its like he actually wants us to be gay, just saying, perhaps only time will tell

Thank you.

Akin Abimbola (akinzogee@yahoo.com)

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