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    Homosexuality A Pastoral Issue: A Mission Perspective.
    (Tangaza University College, 2001-02) Emokhare, Christopher
    The only sexual orientation accepted by society with absolutely little or no question at all is that between people of the opposite sex- man and woman. Any other sexual bearing tending to drift from the accepted sexual relation is highly abhorred and regarded with distaste by the society. This needs not to be over stressed because there are countries that have accepted and even legalised sexual relationships between people of the same sex- homosexuals. In the United States of America, Denmark and the Netherlands, for examples, marriages between same sex is widely practised and allowed. Until recently in Africa, public comments on homosexuality have been fairly infrequent. There exists a culture of silence within which the questions of sexuality - of any kind - are not often debated openly and frankly. One can argue that this is partly because of the lacuna created when old mores are no longer upheld, especially in communities going through urbanisation. In the old days, sex education was transmitted to the young during initiation rituals, but where traditions are breaking down this no longer works.