Uganda smiles as perverts romp
May 29, 2009
My original idea was to list the many sex scandals bringing down reputations and careers of men of God from all sects of religion. But my God, the list is so long and ugly. If I use it, our own guilty pastors will begin to see themselves as a speck in an
My original idea was to list the many sex scandals bringing down reputations and careers of men of God from all sects of religion. But my God, the list is so long and ugly. If I use it, our own guilty pastors will begin to see themselves as a speck in an ocean. Then the males, like me with shapely bums in Rubaga, will continue living in fear of penetration.
Nevertheless, the men we esteem so highly have come tumbling down courtesy of homosexuality, adultery, rape, molestation, promiscuity, prostitution and … name it.
But, apparently, they all fell because they were born in a wrong country. Had they been born in Uganda, for example, no one would have minded them as long as they had enough money to drive hummers.
This country is still ‘very lucky’ to be moving along a crooked train of moral accountability, where the end justifies the means. The scandal that almost brought down Clinton in the US would earn him a fourth term in Uganda. Gertrude Njuba, the presidential advisor, once said during those days of the presidential campaigns, that in Africa, a man who has many sex partners is a great man. Someone had threatened to spill beans on one of the contestants. Even when another was dragged to court over rape charges, his popularity soared instead.
In politics, finding an astute and sincere person in the sexual arena may be possible. But the one who tries to pass a camel through a needle’s eye may find it easier.
When Pastor Kula Namutebi Imelda allegedly snatched a ram from one sheep among the flock under her care, we all stood up like Chelsea fans calling for a penalty. But, like the referee Ovrebo of the European semi finals, the congregation ignored us and Kula’s ex dropped out of the championship and her church thrived. I remembered King David in the Bible, the celebrated ancestor of Jesus, who grabbed Afande Uriah’s wife and even had him killed.
And when Pastor Kakande married his fourth wife, I accosted my neighbour about why she was still praying at the Synagogue Church of all Nations. She used King Solomon (who had 300 wives and 700 concubines) to illustrate the power of God’s blessings and concluded that it was better to marry again than waste energies with an incongruent wife.
So, adultery, polygamy, wife/husband snatching and promiscuity are not scandals here, they are a process of making man more man.
And that is sad.
But even within its absurdity, the US Florida Archbishop Earl Paulk, who slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her, would still be more acceptable than Pastor Ted Arthur Haggard, the fiery anti-homosexuality preacher who used his hours of darkness to buy male prostitutes.
Homosexuality has been frowned upon by all state, religious and social agencies. Now, many are willing to turn the other cheek! Are we adding homosexuality to the list of acceptable standards as we appraise our leaders?
God forbid.
Nevertheless, the men we esteem so highly have come tumbling down courtesy of homosexuality, adultery, rape, molestation, promiscuity, prostitution and … name it.
But, apparently, they all fell because they were born in a wrong country. Had they been born in Uganda, for example, no one would have minded them as long as they had enough money to drive hummers.
This country is still ‘very lucky’ to be moving along a crooked train of moral accountability, where the end justifies the means. The scandal that almost brought down Clinton in the US would earn him a fourth term in Uganda. Gertrude Njuba, the presidential advisor, once said during those days of the presidential campaigns, that in Africa, a man who has many sex partners is a great man. Someone had threatened to spill beans on one of the contestants. Even when another was dragged to court over rape charges, his popularity soared instead.
In politics, finding an astute and sincere person in the sexual arena may be possible. But the one who tries to pass a camel through a needle’s eye may find it easier.
When Pastor Kula Namutebi Imelda allegedly snatched a ram from one sheep among the flock under her care, we all stood up like Chelsea fans calling for a penalty. But, like the referee Ovrebo of the European semi finals, the congregation ignored us and Kula’s ex dropped out of the championship and her church thrived. I remembered King David in the Bible, the celebrated ancestor of Jesus, who grabbed Afande Uriah’s wife and even had him killed.
And when Pastor Kakande married his fourth wife, I accosted my neighbour about why she was still praying at the Synagogue Church of all Nations. She used King Solomon (who had 300 wives and 700 concubines) to illustrate the power of God’s blessings and concluded that it was better to marry again than waste energies with an incongruent wife.
So, adultery, polygamy, wife/husband snatching and promiscuity are not scandals here, they are a process of making man more man.
And that is sad.
But even within its absurdity, the US Florida Archbishop Earl Paulk, who slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her, would still be more acceptable than Pastor Ted Arthur Haggard, the fiery anti-homosexuality preacher who used his hours of darkness to buy male prostitutes.
Homosexuality has been frowned upon by all state, religious and social agencies. Now, many are willing to turn the other cheek! Are we adding homosexuality to the list of acceptable standards as we appraise our leaders?
God forbid.