Homosexuality A Pastoral Issue: A Mission Perspective.
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2001-02
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
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.
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Homosexuality, Pastoral Issue