Editorial

The Gambia is a society with culture, a society with values and beliefs. Our thoughts and actions are dictated by such culture, values and standards. Unnatural human activities that are not in conformity with our culture and beliefs cannot therefore be entertained.

Today there is so much talk about the rights of gays and lesbians. The Gambia, a country known for its culture, morals and conscience cannot provide sanctuary for such engagements.

Our culture has condemned in the most serious terms same sex marriage, so also our religions, Christianity and Islam in particular. This is premised on the principle that the human race must guarantee the production and reproduction of human beings. Once a human being is born by a family and taken care of by society, he or she is under obligation to also constitute a natural family to produce other humans. It is by so doing that we are grateful to the family that gave us birth and society in general for ensuring our living.

The scriptures reveal that societies in the olden days that practiced same sex marriage were greeted with doom because they betrayed creation and by so doing angered thy Lord. Entertaining such practices in our society means we risk facing the same destiny like those ancient societies. In addition, the good morals and values that shape our society and made it conducive for co-existence of humans will be corroded and eventually erased.

We are therefore in full agreement with the leadership that there will be no room for gays and lesbians in The Gambia. We hope that people will be versed in our history to know where we came from so that we can know where we are going to. Human beings did not drop from the sky, we are created by a supreme being who has also laid down rules for us to follow.

Let us always bear in mind that the world and all its materials are not eternal. We came from the lord without our knowledge and will return to Him with our knowledge. And creation is for a purpose, which must be fulfilled. Our failure to fulfill the mission of creation means that destruction awaits us in the end. The Gambia cannot afford to be part of the societies and people who wish to earn the anger of the creator and his lethal punishment.

Our culture in diversity opens the doors for all and sundry, but gays and lesbians and others whose actions, thoughts and conscience are by itself not progressive and are opposed to the Divine Will cannot be entertained.