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The m’zungu Christian Church & Africa

Homophobia & Hypocrisy

How on earth can you then expect Africans to give you immediate acceptance of such

changes in public ‘morals’?
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Societies change when they want to change. There is no rationality to why ‘women’s lib’ took

the best part of 100 years after the time of the ‘suffragettes’ before it became ‘acceptable’.
Progress in the acceptance of a specific change in societal values is delayed as people

divide into two camps. The idealists and the realists. Those who want the world to be perfect

and those who see themselves as pragmatists.
It takes time and events, sometimes very unpleasant events, to create the circumstances

where the ‘weight’ of the ‘idealists’ is sufficient to generate a wider level of acceptance. Some
people might argue that this in itself is a true demonstration of democracy.

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Not content with exporting your 'zuŋ u detritus to Africa, you export your own 'zuŋ u
tribal wars !
Those of you who do not know Africa well can hardly be expected to understand the
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perversity of the 'zuŋ u Christian Church in the way it exports its homophobia and the
societal divisions that it generates.
Anyone who travels in Africa for any length of time will recognise that its a daily sight to

see grown up African males walking hand in hand. Such men may be young or old, peasants
or business men. It's a natural part of their culture. It does not in itself indicate any form of

sexuality. It's a sign of friendship. Friendship between men. Friendship between schoolmates.

Friendship between people of power. Friendship between....whatever.
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As a 'zuŋ u holding hands with another male is uncomfortable to me. And yet if I visit
a village after a long period of absence, it can be quite normal for someone to recognise me
and seek to hold my hand. And to walk me through the village holding my hand.

In doing this, he is as much showing everyone that if they want to do some business

with me they need to go through him. Yes, it is showing every other villager that I can be
treated as a friend, but it has other purposes.