To be is to be contingent: nothing of which it can be said that "it is" can be alone and independent. But being is a member of paticca-samuppada as arising which contains ignorance. Being is only invertible by ignorance.

Destruction of ignorance destroys the illusion of being. When ignorance is no more, than consciousness no longer can attribute being (pahoti) at all. But that is not all for when consciousness is predicated of one who has no ignorance than it is no more indicatable (as it was indicated in M Sutta 22)

Nanamoli Thera

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Homosexuality in Africa

When the AIDS pandemic started in Africa there was much speculation about its source, from infected needles to homosexual transmission etc. I knew that neither was true. Hypodermic needles are not generally available in black Africa, and homosexual behaviour is, to understate the matter, highly frowned upon. When I had mentioned to students in Nigeria (in the late 70s) that in America there were men who have sex with other men, they flatly refused to believe it, the very idea filling them with disgust and revulsion. 

There are naturally effeminate men in Africa, but since the idea of engaging in sex with men never occurs to them – much as, a few hundred years ago, no one ‘missed’ electricity – they mostly live ordinary lives, marrying and having children. Their lack of sexual ‘freedom’ is a small price to pay compared to the increasingly hysterical promotion of homosexuality in the West. 

Peter Akinola Note these remarks by Peter Akinola, head of the Anglican Church in Nigeria (whose 18 million members dwarf the four million in all of North America): “I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. Even in the world of animals, dogs, cows, lions, we don’t hear of such things” (“Defender of the Faith”, The Atlantic Monthly, November 2003). That such a prominent public figure would speak thus indicates that political correctness continues to have little impact on black Africa – and on American blacks as well. 

Homosexual Marriage: Black Instincts Rule In the 2008 U.S. elections, California voted on whether to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. It passed by a 52-48 margin, with a majority of whites voting against it (and hence for same sex marriage). The only reason it passed (and homosexual marriage ruled unconstitutional) is that 70% of blacks voted for it (and against homosexual marriage)! Blacks tend to vote en masse, and the vast majority voted for the far-left Barack Obama, but when it came endorsing homosexual marriage, they voted against everything they were supposed to believe in. I can only attribute this to the same instinctive revulsion I found in my students in Nigeria, illustrating another remarkable congruence between American and African blacks.

Unfortunately, this ‘last-gasp’ attempt to stem the decline of America – a decline manifested by this frantic promotion of sexual perversion – is almost certainly doomed to failure.

Gedaliah Braun

from: RACISM, GUILT, SELF-HATRED AND SELF-DECEIT

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