By CHARLES KACHIKOTI-

HOMOSEXUAL rights have eliminated media freedoms wherever they are in place.
There is no gay therapy organisation even in the West hemisphere that attracts media coverage.
Media houses have either lost or surrendered their freedom to highlight the positives that various organisations are doing to cure homosexuality or to expose its excesses. Only when a negative befalls such gay therapy or anti-gay organisations will coverage be massive.
The day homosexual rights gain currency in our country, the Zambian media will lose their freedoms to question, investigate, expose, interpret and criticise homosexuality in its length and breadth. The hard truth about this matter is that most Zambian media are already incapable of publishing any material that seriously dissects and evaluates homosexuality.
If gay rights take root in Zambia, media laws will simply not permit what is called ‘hate speech’ even where no ‘hate’ is involved. GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) have influenced the Associated Press to restrict the use of the word “homosexual,” and related guidelines are in the AP Stylebook.
The GLAAD have issued a Media Reference Guide which limits media language applicable to coverage of homosexual issues.
Offensive: “homosexual” (n. or adj.)
Preferred: “gay” (adj.); “gay man” or “lesbian” (n.); “gay person/people”
“Please use ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’ to describe people attracted to members of the same sex. Because of the clinical history of the word‘homosexual’ it is aggressively used by anti-gay extremists to suggest that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered-notions discredited by the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s.
Please avoid using ‘homosexual’ except in direct quotes. Please also avoid using ‘homosexual’ as a style variation simply to avoid repeated use of the word ‘gay.’”
To this day, few Zambians understand what homosexuality is. And when some defend the rights of gays, they have no clue that the clamour is not merely about legal and constitutional rights of gays but the soul of a nation. The campaign is about our children: shoot them before they grow.
Journalists are called to be men and women of conviction, not reporters without purpose. Accordingly, the homosexuality question should be seized, bisected and explored, explained and interpreted for what it is so that every citizen has a clear idea of what gays are about.
Journalists should not toy around with the candles of gay politics in Zambia; those candles have been lit from wildfires raging across church and school, house and workplace, barrack and parliament, mine and farm, discotheque and brothel in the Wild West.
One candle here will be all the spark gays need to set ablaze this land of work and joy in unity.
Do we journalists want press freedom? Then keep the doors closed on gay wrongdoings.
Political independence
Homosexual rights are being forced on Third World states by powerful nations, showing that the West disregards our political independence.
Our right to stand on principles unique to us is publicly despised in the West where a New Scramble for Africa is afoot.
Africans still suffer from the ripples of the slave trade which lasted from 1440 to 1840 and colonial rule which was initially visualised in Paris in 1875.
After the end of the slave trade, the Scramble for Africa erupted. It was the invasion, occupation, colonization, and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and 1914. The partitioning of Africa was how the Europeans avoided war amongst themselves over the continent.
When we thought we had attained political independence, neo-colonial rule seeped into our borders. After we thought we had understood (though not managed) this new phenomenon, re-colonization has become a threat.
What we now have is a New Scramble for Africa because land and natural resources have become scarcities in the developed world. Every other world power now hosts a summit with Africa, our heads of states and governments being invited to meetings in overseas capitals to discuss mutual economic interest.
Those African states where rulers have point-blank rejected homosexuality face international condemnation orchestrated by powerful interest groups.
In those countries where rulers have been afraid to define the limits, gays are becoming more daring. They are becoming more daring because world powers have fallen in love with homosexuality, regardless of its catastrophic multiple consequences.
Gays are more daring because world powers are dictating to sovereign republics and instructing them to go homosexual, regardless of their existence as nation-states. That is the voice of re-colonisation.
That is the voice of rulers representing classes in the West whose eyes are on our land and natural resources.
To get hold of the land and natural resources, as seen in history, they sponsor armed rebellion; they sponsor lethal health campaigns which have the appearance of benefiting women and children when they are introducing long-term debilitation; and they finance and sustain social chaos which enables illegal mining of oil and precious stones.
We cannot uphold our political independence if we allow ourselves to live only for today and therefore become weak in body and in spirit.
All forms of unthinking indulgence, not only homosexuality, should be prohibited. A gay nation is as helpless and spineless as an alcoholic nation. A gay nation is as vulnerable to re-colonisation as a Satan-worshipping state.
Righteousness does exalt a nation (Proverbs 14:34), but nationally accepted sin establishes national shame.
In March 2013, the European Union offered financial support for organisations that wish to promote rights of gay people in Zambia.
The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) strongly and flatly rejected the offer and warned the EU against interfering in the internal affairs of Zambia; going as far as demanding an apology from the union. That is the most sensible way to respond to unwarranted provocation: our sovereignty and integral existence are at stake.
In 2011, the US and the UK warned they would use foreign aid to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Africa. You cannot fail to recognise the revival of colonialism in those threats.
In the face of all those grey and grim clouds, the European Court of Human Rights acted in favour of sanity.
Writing in the Mail Online, Steve Doughty reported on March 20, 2012: “Same-sex marriages are not a human right, European judges have ruled.
“Their decision shreds the claim by ministers that gay marriage is a universal human right and that same-sex couples have a right to marry because their mutual commitment is just as strong as that of husbands and wives.
“The ruling was made by judges of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg following a case involving a lesbian couple in a civil partnership who complained the French courts would not allow them to adopt a child as a couple.
“The European Court of Human Rights, based in the French eastern city of Strasbourg, has ruled that same-sex marriages are not a human right.
“It means that if MPs legislate for same-sex marriage, the Coalition’s promise that churches will not be compelled to conduct the weddings will be worthless.”
Should the EU MPs eventually legislate for same-sex marriage, churches will be compelled to conduct gay weddings. This is precisely where we will be heading with gay laws.
Every nation has to show character. In India, the Supreme Court of India set aside a 2009 Delhi High Court ruling that legalised homosexuality, passing the issue back to lawmakers to deal with in a major setback for LGBTI rights in India.
It was reported on December 11 last year that India’s Supreme Court has found the country’s colonial era Section 377 anti-sodomy law legal–potentially seeing a return to the criminalisation of India’s LGBTI community. The Supreme Court justices said that Indian society was not yet ready for the law to be repealed and handed the issue back to lawmakers to deal with.
You cannot ignore the political undertones to that ruling, which was, predictably, condemned in the West.
Without our political independence, after embracing gay rights we will have no choice but to endorse and enforce every kind of new right that emerges. At that stage, will there still be a nation to govern?
Secularism
The only way to legalise and normalise homosexuality is to turn Zambia into a secular state-or, more precisely, a post-secular state.
In a secular state, religion has no place in national affairs. It is a personal matter that is relegated to personal practice away from national platforms.
Secularism proscribes faith and religious belief from the broad psyche of society-which is in keeping with New Age thinking: If it works for you, it is alright.
However, post-secularism accepts and accommodates all religions of all definitions (witchcraft and Satan-worship included) as a reversal of the secularist era when logos-centricity was considered unacceptable. Logos-centricity accepts the idea of logos, the revealed Word of God which is the final authority in matters of human faith, morality, law and order.
In a secular society, there is no such thing as final authority on matters of faith, moral law and social norms. This is why in such societies, right and wrong are not absolute concepts, but relative and subjective. This is why in such societies the crimes that take people to court and eventually to jail receive soft, lenient terms because all misdemeanours are rationalised and explained away.
Every nation that has promulgated gay rights, witchcraft rights, incest rights, bestiality rights, adultery rights, necrophilia rights-all of which are public protest material on the (West hemisphere) streets and on the Internet today-has taken an anti-christ nation position
There are no two ways about it, and there is no middle ground.
In such societies all wrongdoing has an explicable and justifiable cause. Today, the same societies that for centuries considered homosexuality a mental illness now take it as a matter of orientation or choice or inclination. You cannot reason wrongfulness into rightfulness without accommodating every other perversion that the contemporary world would rather sugar-coat and legalise.
The Anti-Christ Nation mood pervades the West where money and technology have become the sum total of destiny; and where moral sense and spiritual vitality have lost importance.
Discussing global politics and strategy, the Brookings website said in April 2011:
“Christianity is undergoing a profound transformation. The traditional European churches, both Catholic and Protestant, appear to be approaching their twilight hour, despite the spiritual richness of certain circles. There are, to be sure, occasional high-profile and successful media events, but ordinary worship services are increasingly deserted and pollsters who ask about faith are receiving fewer and fewer positive answers.
“The paedophilia scandal, affecting the Catholic Church in particular, has been another downward step in an already adverse trend. The Vatican may continue to enjoy some political influence, mainly in Italy, but the original Christian connotations of many centrist parties in Western Europe have to a large extent faded.
The cases of the Orthodox churches may differ for local reasons, but their roles have been relatively marginal in the fate of Christianity as a whole.”
All that, gloomy as it may be, does not change the mission given to all believers by Jesus Christ; which is to be the salt of the world.
What is obtaining in the West is no example for Zambia’s believers to follow. God is still God and we should always worship Him.
A secular or post-secular state has no character. It has no standard and must soon prepare to cope with the situation described at the very end of the Book of Judges (21:25):
“In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.”