A letter to my homophobic friend

Dear Erick Agade…Please go and screw yourself; as in literally tighten up those nuts and bolts in between your ears to hopefully enable more thoughtful thinking. Yours truly. 

I am reading the Daily Nation right now and I had to take a moment and pen this down. Erick just wrote to the editor to tell us that he ‘supports Mugabe’s reference to gays, homosexuals and lesbians as being worse than pigs because of going against morals to engage in filthy acts’. Mugabe, a century old dictator with a century old mind, enough said.

My first request is to keep god out of this issue since you are all very partial to his teachings and the myriad realities of life. When you say that he ‘knew when He created mankind’ - we can list a number of genetic alternations and catastrophes in this world that could explain that life is not as black and white as we would like it to be in our limited minds. Yes the mastermind plan is to have a penis go into a vagina but just as you can be born with eyes that do not see and limbs that are differently able (diffabled as I call it), the same applies with hormonal development that dictates a spectrum of sexual attraction.

Thank you Minister Esther Murugi for taking the stand on acceptance of diversity in sexual orientation, I am sure that the pressing issues like hunger in Turkana ‘where people eat dogs’ that Erick so adamantly wants you to attend to is already being addressed by folks like my sister who are up there as we speak. And of course the American bags of food have been sent which funny enough are never rejected as a western value when homophobic sisters and brothers are quick to dismiss gay rights as an outsider’s agenda.

My question to Erick is why should a homosexual person be ‘ashamed’ of demanding their rights? What is there to be ashamed of in wanting to access the same resources that we get as  Kenyans, access to healthcare, to seek employment and earn a living? What is so shameful about not wanting to be harassed by pretentious individuals like Erick?

Who exactly are we to pass such discriminatory moral judgement? I would love to see your moral CV Erick, so when you get a minute, please drop me a line or pass it on to the editor for all of us to read. In the meantime, pick up a book or two for enlightenment beyond the Bible and Mugabe mentality. I strongly recommend the Male Brain by Louann Brizzendine and Caveman Logic: the Persistence of Primitive Thinking in a Modern World by Hank Davis.