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Rev. Kasibante
erred on Sodom
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Sept 2007- Uganda- Rev. Kasibante’s take on the ‘real’ sin of Sodom and
Gomorrah is interesting, to say it politely. His article is evidence to the
unflattering reality that the Bible is used as a resource for clergymen,
politicians and conmen (please pardon my redundancy) to enforce and support
whatever agenda they have on their minds.
The reverend wants us to believe that the real sin of Sodom had nothing to do
with sexual deviance yet the whole Chapter 19 of Genesis depicts nothing but
homosexuality, incest and rape. The twin cities were destroyed because God
failed to find even ten righteous people amongst them.
In the preceding Chapter 18, God had promised Abraham that if he found ten good
people, he would spare the whole city on account of that ten. Lot was spared not
because he was righteous, but because he was a relative of Abraham. “… So when
God was destroying the cities, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of
the disaster that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.”
One wonders why Lot was inviting strange men into his house and baking them
bread. And where was his wife at this time? That Lot’s wife had looked back
during the escape despite the warnings from the angels of death just shows how
much she didn’t want to leave all that debauchery behind. And the so-called
virgin daughters were mischievous enough to get their father drunk and have
their way with him.
If a woman has only had lesbian sex, is she still a virgin? Did the girls sleep
with their father only those two times? Probably not, since they had to ensure
that they both got pregnant. How drunk was this Mr Lot during this three-some
with is daughters? Probably not very drunk. After all the Baganda say:
‘Omutamiivu tabaaga mbwa’ which loosely means ‘a drunkard can’t slaughter a dog
however drunk he may be.”
If the real sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was ‘not extending a hand to the poor’
like Rev. Kasibante would like us to believe, it really gets lost under all that
sex going on in that chapter of the Bible.
If Rev. Kasibante’s agenda in his article was to defend homosexuality, then he
did his position a disservice by invoking a transparently fallacious
interpretation of the events of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Homosexuality was a sin and God forbade the children of Israel to engage in its
activities expressly by commanding thus in Leviticus 18:22: “Do not lie with a
man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.”
A few problems arise though when we try to argue against homosexuality in Uganda
by invoking the Bible. For example the Bible is silent on girl-on- girl action,
or lesbianism. This may give the impression that God concurs with most men that
lesbianism is not detestable.
Also there are several other activities forbidden by the Lord in the Bible and
if we choose to enforce only the one of homosexuality, we may come off as
insincere, deceitful and outright hypocritical. So while we crusade against
homosexuality, let’s also remember not to approach our women for sexual
relations during their time of the month and also we shouldn’t take our wives’
sisters as second wives while our wives are still living.
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