A Christian Group, National Prayer Altar has called on the government to strengthen the legislation against homosexuality, raising concerns over its growing cases in the country, despite having a law in place that prohibits such practices.
This is just as the group made up of Christian elders urged the government to include laws against cross-dressing and other sexual practices that is alien to religion and Nigerian culture.
Addressing journalists through a webinar in Lagos, one of the Coordinators of the group, Pastor Bosun Emmanuel said through the patronage of some western nations, a counterculture is fast spreading in Nigeria, expressing itself as homosexuality, lesbianism, cross-dressing accommodated under the deplorable LGBTQ umbrella.
He said as Africans, sodomy is alien to the culture and offensive to the values. He noted that Traditional African societies generally recognize romance between a male and a female, not sodomy.
Pastor Emmanuel further noted that the Western nations sponsoring sodomy, in the effort to launder the behaviour, have gone to great lengths to persuade the world that homosexuality and lesbianism are alternative lifestyles.
On the call for action, Pastor Emmanuel said “we call on governments to strengthen the legislation against sodomy.
“Anyone who publicly supports the practice should be arrested and prosecuted.
“This is imperative, as some sodomites sneakily deploy the media to distort narratives and make the crime look like “freedom of choice.”
“That perversion and trespass of the law can be no less ‘freedom of choice’ than drug trafficking or armed robbery.
“No one should undermine the law, on social media or in the mainstream media. The law should be expanded to empower Nigerians to report, arrest and prosecute anyone who promotes homosexuality in the country.
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“There should be greater advocacy in the media, targeted at our impressionable youths, especially in schools. Most of the promoters of this defilement come across as ‘successful celebrities,’ so it is our responsibility to protect our children.
He urged Nigerians not give leadership positions to those who practice sodomy. He stressed that when leaders are involved in such act, the consequences fall upon the entire country.
“Politicians that engage in homosexuality should be called out as pollutants of the land.
“We call on Nigeria Christians, locally and internationally, to mark Sunday 15th December 2024 as a day of “National Confession and Repentance from Sodomy”.
“We urge Christians to fast and pray on that day, for God’s forgiveness and deliverance from sodomy and all manner of sexual perversions in the land.
“We appeal to the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, and all other church leaders in the country, to call on all churches to pray during the worship service on Sunday 15th December 2024, renouncing sodomy and sexual perversion in Nigeria.
“We also call on the Ministry of Education to ensure that compromising materials are removed from the curriculum of schools while there should be greater monitoring of school dormitories.
“There is an urgent need to protect our children from exposure to the damaging influence of LGBTQ. The National Film and Video Censors Board should ensure greater policing of entertainment materials in the country.
“A common practice of LGBTQ sponsors is to use the film industry to distort the perception of people.
“As a country, we must stand as one to resist this abomination, offensive as it is to our cultural and moral values.
“The National Assembly should strengthen legislation against sodomy and sexual perversion in the land by including cross-dressing in the 14-year jail term.
“In addition, the production of any material, be it film, video, or publication, that promotes LGBTQ should be included for prosecution under the same law”, he added.
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