This is one of those blogs that I know will provoke derision but I will throw prudence out of the window and write it nonetheless.
I’ve quietly been following debate on the gay partnership between two consenting Kenyan adults in the UK over the past few days and feel compelled to say the following;
The Kenyan media has unfairly demonised occupants of a homestead in Murang’a over the sexual orientation of one of their own who has chosen a particular (or is it odd?) lifestyle.
What moral authority does the media hold to dictate what is correct or incorrect in society? Haven’t they told us that one man’s meat may be another man’s poison?
For a start, the civil union was conducted in the UK where the act is legal.As such, the couple has not committed any crime. They did not cement the union here in Kenya where such an act is still unlawful.
Let me pose this… If you were to count the number of thieves sitting in the so-called Grand Coalition government you’d fall asleep before you’re done.Why haven’t we made it a big deal as we have this particular gay saga?
Why haven’t I seen the media troop to the homes of those politicians to demand to know from their mothers if they know their sons and daughters are crooks? I think I have the answer… It’s because it is not the business of my folks to determine what I decide to do once I turn 18.It is also none of your business!
If our TV crews expended so much energy on the moral high ground as we did on this story, then we would have changed Kenya for the better decades ago.
We should leave Charles Ngengi and his ‘bride’ Daniel Chege Gichia to enjoy their honeymoon on the sunny beaches of Brighton in the south of the UK. They are roughly 7,000 kilometers away from us and their partnership is unlikely to influence our way of life.
For what it’s worth, theirs would have been a quiet union had it not been for the prying media who intruded our quiet ‘moral’ lifestyles, which they have now ‘polluted’ with ‘normal’ goings on in a part of North London.
We should accept divergent orientations and views, especially if they do not affect you and pose no risk. This world is not about what you imagine to be right or wrong – right according to whom? What you imagine is right may be wrong according to someone in Islington – or Kawangware for that matter.
There! I’ve said it. Bring on the affection or hate.
For the record; I’m not anywhere near gay.
By Michael Mumo-Capital FM
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