By JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA

When in November 2011 the Senate passed a bill prohibiting same sex marriage, slamming it with a 14-year jail term as punishment, international communities who considered the law an abuse on the emotional rights of homosexuals, threatened to put an end to all grants and aids given to Nigeria unless the law was abolished. Here, acclaimed singles and married counselor, Pastor(Mrs.)Ruth Nick-Essien, Founder/Presiding Pastor of Exodus Evangelical Ministry in Lagos, reveals her views on the issue.

Hear her:

First and foremost, we all came into this world to meet the male and the female, and we know that God created Adam and Eve; not Adam and Steve or Eve and Evelyn. When a man marries another man, and a woman another woman, where is procreation going to take place? As long as procreation does not take place, at the end of the day, we won’t have human beings anymore. Now, if we do not have procreation, where will be the humans whose rights international communities say they’re fighting for, come from? Same sex marriage is simply a target from the pit of hell against the human race.

It is a plan by the devil to exterminate the human race because he probably feels that the bomb blasts and killings going on here and there aren’t enough! Practically, how can people of same sex produce biologically? As we grow older, we’re supposed to replenish the earth, but in the case of same sex marriages, who is going to leave behind new generations of human beings?

Some same sex couples want to adopt children, and nobody is seeing the human rights abuse in that! How come they want children produced biologically by a male and a female, and they themselves have refused to produce? So, who will produce the children that they would want to  adopt? International communities talk about human rights but they seem to forget that when a gay couple adopts a child and begins to raise that child in a gay home, the human rights of that child is being abused because he/she is being brought up in an unusual atmosphere, without the child’s consent.

Naturally, when a child grows up in a normal home, the child feels free to decide on whatever sex partner he or she wants, but when he or she grows up to see a man and a man kissing, or a woman and a woman kissing, automatically, that child will grow up with that understanding, mentality and orientation that a male should marry a male and vice versa.

Pastor Ruth Essien

So, who is fighting for the right of that child who was innocently adopted and a gay life forced on him? Even the rights of babies produced by surrogate mothers through the sperms of these gay men, is at stake here!

Also, what happens to the rights of the human race? A male and a female came together to produce you, so, don’t you think it is wicked of you not to want to also produce another human being, unless you have infertility problem? Who is fighting for the right of the human race?

To everyone involved in same sex relationship and marriage, I want to let you know that you’re self-centred, wicked and selfish about the next generation. If your father felt like being with a man and your mother felt like being with a woman, would they have produced you? Your action is a direct war on human race, and should never be encouraged by any right thinking and decent society. I believe same sex relationship is a lifestyle; not a natural tendency. Therefore, it can be stopped.

When you counsel some people who are in same sex relationship, you will find that somewhere in their foundation, there was an abuse. This means they weren’t born to desire a relationship with their own sex. God did not create a man to have the desire to be with a man or a woman to desire another woman! Something went wrong along the line in the lives of these people! And that’s why I always say that there is a mental and emotional problem. Maybe in their childhood, they were being raped, abused constantly, until it became a desire in them.

Recently, a young guy whose name I cannot reveal, walked into my church crying. I was crying with him because I knew he was gay. He suddenly started saying “Pastor, I’m positive. I’m positive!” I had warned him before and he had lied to me that he wasn’t  gay but just didn’t like hanging around girls. Now, this young man is HIV-positive! So, what are we saying about the health aspect of being gay?

The anus will always be filled with excreta, and excreta is a waste that is supposed to be thrown out of the system. When you begin to have sex with somebody through the anus, you’re going to create a lot of health problems because we know that AIDS spreads faster through the anus. So, when we begin to allow that in any society, we’re saying that we want people to die of AIDS faster.

The anus cannot lubricate itself and expand; only the vagina was designed by God to lubricate itself and also expand in order to aid sexual intercourse and procreation. Hence, another health problem with gay men is their inability to hold excreta anymore after quite a long time since the anus had become slack due to forced penetration! Hence, you see such men walking awkwardly because their anuses have been abused! Is that the kind of society we want to have?