THE United States of America positions itself as a great country.

There is no doubt about the greatness of the USA, if we are counting riches in terms of its military might, the sheer size of its, and its enormous wealth and vast global influences.

Yet the USA is one of the poorest countries in the world. Its cultural and moral decadence has reached a bizarre apogee. The USA is in decline. Most concerns are about its depleting economy, but the USA can no longer contain its decay within its shores.

For years, it has been exporting its decadence in a bid to spread its corruption round the world. Through dominance of food, music, fashion, media, and supposed support for rights groups, it has sustained a global encroachment on rights of people to decide how they live.

The USA considers it a national right for it to interfere in others’ businesses for its own benefit. Aware that its splendour is a façade, the USA promotes agenda that push its interests. The USA as a dying nation is unwilling to perish alone.

Its criticisms of Nigeria’s anti-gay law are based on lies, a strategy the USA promptly deploys when its nebulous interests are affected.

Secretary of State John Kerry claimed the law, “dangerously restricts freedom of assembly, association and expression for all Nigerians.”

Kerry said it “is inconsistent with Nigeria’s international legal obligations and undermines the democratic reforms and human rights protections enshrined in its 1999 Constitution.” He should have been more specific. How would same-sex marriage enhance the rights in the1999 Constitution?

“People everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality. No one should face violence or discrimination for who they are or who they love,” Kerry said. Of course, he knows nobody would face any violence over the law. Suspects would undergo trial and if guilty, they would be punished.

It is part of the USA’s hypocrisy to create impressions that it is a free country. What is freedom if there are no controls? Would that not result in lawlessness? It in realisation of the descent that freedoms like gay rights have imposed on its society that the USA wants everyone to share its decadence.

We are Nigerians. We are Africans. We cherish our families; we live and die for them. We do not accept relationships that would, over time, lead to the cessation of the family, the basic platform of society.

As a haven for gays, the USA can grant gays citizenship. They would gladly flock to the land of endless rights to enjoy limitless liberties Americans cherish.

Nigerians would not support gay relationships – we are not Americans.