All she told TELL Magazine below;
What Nigerians need to know about
homoséxuality:
The very first thing we need to understand is
that homoséxuality, biséxuality, aséxuality are
all as natural as heteroséxuality. Our séxual
orientation differs; we are born with an
innate ability to be emotionally or séxually
attracted or not be séxually or emotionally
attracted to same séx or opposite séx.
Unfortunately, many African societies do not
provide enabling environments to discuss
séxual orientation. Séxual orientation does
not harm anyone. A person who is attracted
to opposite séx does not harm anyone so far
it is a consensual adult relationship.
A homoséxual who is attracted to the same
séx does not harm anybody so far it is a
consensual adult relationship.
A Biséxual or Panséxual who can be attracted
to all séxes harms no one so far it is an adult
consensual relationship.
Even an Aséxual who is not séxually attracted
to any gender harms no one. We are all
different, and non-harmful lifestyle of adults
should not be criminalised.
If Nigerians will ever accept homosexuality:
Whether Nigerians accept it or not, LGBT
rights are recognised human rights. Unless,
you can prove that Lesbians, gays, biséxuals
and transséxuals are not human beings, well,
you have no reason to deny them their
fundamental human rights.
Unfortunately many Nigerians believe in the
concept of sin. First, we must understand that
sin is a religious concept.
Not every Nigerian is religious. Your religion
is also a personal matter, why drag other
people into your personal relationship with
Jesus, Mohamed or Obatala?
When I am told that homoséxuality is a sin, I
just tell them their religion is not my law. The
Bible or
Quran is not my constitution, so why is that
even coming up?
It is absurd when Christian gay bashers
gleefully quote Leviticus 18:22 to justify why
they want to jail and stone gays. Anyone who
wants to quote from Leviticus should at least
read the book to make sure they are not
guilty of any of the things condemned in the
book.
Leviticus also says you should not shave, you
should not interact with a woman in her
menstrual cycle, thou shall not eat shrimps or
shell fish, Lev. 11:10,11:6-8 thou shall not
touch the skin of a dead pig (therefore
touching football without wearing gloves
makes you unclean!)
So, when Christians throw Leviticus at me, I
simply throw Leviticus right back in their
face.
What her family thinks about her séxual
orientation and controversies:
What makes a family is love, tolerance and
acceptance. Anyone who shows me love and
welcomes me into their heart is my family.
Love is one thing that is thicker than blood.
My immediate family knows my séxual
orientation, my father is late, and my mother
is accepting of whom I am and has shown me
love and support.
To continue to be an important part of my
life, you cannot be homophobic, biphobic or
transphobic.
If her atheism belief is connected to her
séxuality:
My atheism has nothing to do with my
biséxuality. Atheism is simply a non-belief in
God. My biséxuality is my séxual orientation,
no connection.
However, I must say, my atheism has helped
me to stand up against religious bullies, who
use the Bible and the Quran to justify their
hate for gays, lesbians, transséxual and
biséxuals.
Religion carries a lot of unwarranted weight in
Nigeria and Africa generally. This should not
be so. In fact, this is one reason the African
continent is still very backward.
When religion carried so much weight in
Europe during middle Ages, it was wrought
with wars, jihads, killings and ethnic
cleansing.
Many religious Africans now use the ‘holy’
books to justify the oppression of members of
their own society. Even when the original
owners of the religion inform them that the
book has been updated and some parts are no
longer applicable, Africans still insist that it is
must be applicable because it says so in the
book they were given. How pathetic!
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