[dropcap]A[/dropcap]frican parents home and abroad are raising concerns over LGBTQIA+ as Canadian government allegedly jailed a parent for referring to his 14year old daughter as a ‘she’ and also for trying to prevent a hospital from pumping her full of hormones.
LGBTQIA+ is an acronym that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual.
In a highly censored film on gender ideology, “What Is A Woman?”, Matt Walsh exposed how a father narrated how he found himself in court over his refusal to allow the government turned his daughter to a man without his permission.
The documentary has amassed about 177.2 million views on The Daily Wire’s Twitter post since it was released for free. The film has received a lot of publicity and positive feedback from conservatives but a lot of hostility from transgender activists.
It was initially released by The Daily Wire to its paid subscribers on June 1, 2022 and to celebrate the one-year anniversary, The Daily Wire made the film free on Twitter for a limited time, which began on June 1, 2023.
“Our film has been banned from most platforms,” Walsh said in a Tweet. “Mainstream movie critics refused to even review it. It’s been blacklisted and suppressed and yet still reached a massive audience. But how many more could we have reached without the deck stacked completely against us? It’s no use lamenting these things.”
Walsh is a practicing Catholic and the film was well received by some Catholic viewers.
CatholicVote, a Catholic political advocacy group, recommended the film for viewers aged 16 and older and suggested that high school students should discuss it with a trusted adult.
In Nigeria, the debate rages on as to what this rising trends portend for the future of parenting as parents ruminate upon them.
“LGBTQ …Catching them young. Be careful and prayerful, our children are the target,” an elderly legal practitioner wrote while sharing a short video on how a popular retail store in the United States, Target, stocked up [tooltip text=”PRIDE” gravity=”nw”]Pride, formerly known as Gay Pride, is a recognition of LGBTQ identity, affirmation of equal rights, and celebration of visibility, dignity, and diversity in the LGBTQ community.[/tooltip] merchandise targeting new born babies.
“Terrible the Bar. I fear for this generation,” another father responded.
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“The children are actually the target now. They have included in some school curriculum in the abroad. LGBT is a thing now. More worse I saw a post on a school in Virginia that actually teaches Satanism as an after-school club day. They bring real Satanist and teach dem all sorts. These are Children btw the ages of 6 and 10,” a woman wrote.
A man pushed for proactive parenting when he responded, “I think it is time not only to always be reactive.Maybe we should now become more proactive.Are there some important values that we dont want “them” to tamper with and disrupt? Lets push those values up! Always.”
“You should fear for Japa generation. It is easier, despite our economy situation here to surmount the basic challenges of life, wish is food,clothing and shelter than to prevent prevailing culture over your innocent children in another man’s land.l am afraid for the desperation of an average young Nigerian, who wouldn’t mind to be part of LGBT if it can guarantee visa and easy travels,” wrote the lawyer.
However, despite the concerns being raised by these parents, Africa still ranks as the worst continent for queer people.
A widely shared report released in 2020 showed that 32 out of the 54 countries in the continent still uphold and maintain anti-gay laws. and high up on that list is Nigeria.
In 2011, the Nigerian Senate disregarded the desires of the country’s western allies and passed a strict bill banning same-sex marriage and public display of affection by gays in Nigeria.
The Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition bill (2011) was one of the first laws passed by the then five-month-old Senate.
Sponsored by Domingo Obende of the People’s Democratic Party from Edo state shortly after the senate was constituted that same year, the bill was met with a lot of global outrage and criticism, with the United Kingdom and some other governments in Western Europe even going as far as threatening to pull aid to countries that pass laws persecuting homosexuals. But despite all this pressure, and fully aware of the implications of the law in Nigeria’s foreign diplomacy, the Nigerian government still enacted the anti-gay law three years later in 2014, which states that:
- Persons who enter into a same-sex marriage contract or civil union commit an offence and are each liable on conviction to a term of 14 years in prison.
- Any person who registers, operates, or participates in gay clubs, societies and organisations or directly or indirectly makes public show of same-sex amorous relationship in Nigeria commits an offence and shall each be liable on conviction to a term of 10 years in prison.
Ojelabi, the publisher of Freelanews, is an award winning and professionally trained mass communicator, who writes ruthlessly about pop culture, religion, politics and entertainment.
