Thursday 13 December 2012

God does not discriminate :God does not say Christians are better than Muslims… or gay is better than straight: Is Bishop Desmond Tutu using the Gay controversy in Uganda to stealthily promote ecumenism and erroneous theology ?



My analysis

It is un ethical and a lack of Ubuntu to persecute and criminalize gays  just as it is equally unethical to persecute and criminalize cigarette smokers and alcoholics. Like smokers , gays are struggling with a habit they have been socialized into . We must tolerate them just like we tolerate smokers. However, tolerating gays is not synonymous with condoning what they do. Society must put in place interventions(based on love and not hatred) aimed at de-socializing gays from this habit or socialization. The Ugandan Society has a duty to resist the recruitment of children and adults into homosexuality using monetary enticements. Any homosexual who sodomises a minor must face the law. In Uganda we do not need a new Law to fight homosexuality. Of course God does not discriminate, but this should not give a lee way to gays and Muslims to stubbornly refuse to be born again while thinking that God is so loving so much so that he will and can not send any one to hell. It is not written any where in the scriptures that Christians are not better than Muslims or that gays are not better than those that are straight. Scriptures says categorically that those who do not have the son do not have life(1 John 5:11). You can not have the son(be born again) and continue being gay.

 

Bishop Tutu’s Confused theology
Bishop Tutu opines that , "It is with supreme sorrow that I witness, to this day, the subjugation and repression of African brother and sisters whose only crime is the practice of love,"….. "Hate, in any form or shape, has no place in the house of God." ……God says love one another; love your neighbor. God is for freedom, equality and love.’’ It true God told us to love one another and calls a hater of a brother  a murderer( 1 John 3:15). However God does not consider the sexual relationship between a man and man or between a woman and woman as love. This is actually a perversion of love. Any person who lives  the homosexual to wallow in his or her sodomy or lesbian  sin does not have the TRUE LOVE OF GOD. Any loving born again Christian can not compromise with sin because the wages of sin is death and dying in sin leads to hell. Of course true Christians should never use municipal law to fight sin. Thus , Bishop Desmond Tutu’s theology is very confused.


Food for thought

During the 2011 Girl power conference at Miracle center cathedral, Pastors Robert and Jessica Kayanja made four cakes; one four the Catholics, another for the Pentecostals, one for the Anglicans and another for people of other faiths. During the whole conference, there was no call for Catholics and Anglicans to get saved.   Now, was this love or satanic ecumenism disguising as love .

 

To Ugandan MPs: God does not discriminate among our family

http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/To-Ugandan-MPs--God-does-not-discriminate-among-our-family/-/689364/1641946/-/v9anyg/-/index.html

By Desmond Tutu

Posted  Wednesday, December 12  2012 at  02:00

In Summary
God does not say black is better than white, or tall is better than short, or football players are better than basketball players, or Christians are better than Muslims… or gay is better than straight. No. God says love one another; love your neighbour. God is for freedom, equality and love.

Uganda’s Parliament is – unbelievably – on the verge of considering a new piece of legislation that would have the effect of legalising persecution, discrimination, hatred and prejudice in that country.

Should the Anti-Homosexuality Bill be voted into law, it will criminalise acts of love between certain categories of people, just as the apartheid government made intimate relations between black and white South Africans a punishable offence.

Members of the apartheid police force charged with the upkeep of “morality” would rush into the bedrooms of suspected offenders to gather evidence, such as warm bed sheets. Those found guilty were arrested, put on trial and punished. What awaits the people of Uganda?

One thing that Ugandan legislators should know is that God does not discriminate among members of our family. God does not say black is better than white, or tall is better than short, or football players are better than basketball players, or Christians are better than Muslims… or gay is better than straight. No. God says love one another; love your neighbour. God is for freedom, equality and love.

People have over many centuries devised all kinds of terrible instruments to oppress other people. Usually, they have rationalised their awful actions on the basis of their belief in their own superiority, in their culture, in their spiritual beliefs, in their skin-colour. Thus, they argue, they are justified to hate and bomb and maim the “other”.

The Anti-Homosexuality legislation now under consideration in Uganda is just such an instrument.
Nelson Mandela said, “No one is born hating another person”. If people are taught and can learn to hate, they can learn to love.

Many times in my life, I have been blessed to witness the innate capacity of our human family to reconcile differences. The common denominator in all these transactions is recognition that the notion of equal rights in any family, in any society, is non-negotiable. No sane person or group of people can sustainably argue that their rights should be more equal than others.

If what I am told is true, that the Anti-Homosexuality legislation in Uganda has widespread popular support, it should surely be the moral duty of the custodians of that country to educate its citizens about discrimination and equal rights. Surely, it should be their duty to clarify the fundamental misunderstandings in communities about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI).

The depiction of members of the LGBTI community as crazed and depraved monsters threatening the welfare of children and families is simply untrue, and is reminiscent of what we experienced under apartheid and what the Jews experienced at the hands of the Nazis.

To those who claim that homosexuality is not part of our African culture, you are conveniently ignoring the fact that LGBTI Africans have lived peacefully and productively beside us throughout history.

I am proud that in South Africa, when we succeeded in overthrowing apartheid, we put in place a Constitution that prohibited all forms of discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

We did this because we understood that the freedom of one depends upon the freedom of all. We call it the spirit of ubuntu: the idea that I cannot be free if you are not also free.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, and does not feel threatened by others’ differences, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

The ideology of racial superiority that was once used to justify the colonisation of our lands is part of our recent history. Today, we face a new challenge. We must overcome the notion that sexual orientation defines one’s identity or determines one’s station in life – or unjustly elevates one class of people over another.

It is with supreme sorrow that I witness, to this day, the subjugation and repression of African brothers and sisters whose only crime is the practice of love. Hate, in any form or shape, has no place in the house of God.

I urge the people of Uganda to reject hatred and prejudice.
Love comes more naturally to the human heart than hate.
Desmond Tutu is the Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa and a reknown anti-apartheid leader.


Desmond Tutu Tells Ugandan MPs 'God Does Not Discriminate'




In a powerful op-ed in Uganda's daily newspaper, the Nobel Peace Prize winner urges Ugandan members of parliament to reject the so-called Kill The Gays bill.


BY Sunnivie Brydum

December 12 2012 6:15 PM ET


Desmond Tutu, the archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, penned a poignant op-ed Wednesday calling on Uganda's members of parliament to stand up for the oppressed and reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would prescribe long-term imprisonment and even death for some LGBT people. The bill has been positioned at the top of Parliament's list of "business to follow" for several weeks, and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told reporters in November that she wants the bill passed as a "Christmas present" to Ugandans who are "demanding it."

The Rev. Tutu, who rose to sociopolitical prominence fighting to end the racial segregation of apartheid in South Africa, implored Ugandan leaders and laypeople to turn away from the hateful legislation. 

"One thing that Ugandan legislators should know is that God does not discriminate among members of our family," writes Tutu. "God does not say black is better than white, or tall is better than short, or football players are better than basketball players, or Christians are better than Muslims… Or gay is better than straight. No. God says love one another; love your neighbor. God is for freedom, equality, and love." 

In the editorial published in Ugandan newspaper The Daily Monitor, Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, compared Uganda's so-called Kill The Gays bill to South Africa's apartheid and the mass extermination of Jewish people under the Nazi party. 

"It is with supreme sorrow that I witness, to this day, the subjugation and repression of African brother and sisters whose only crime is the practice of love," writes Tutu. "Hate, in any form or shape, has no place in the house of God."

Tutu also challenges the notion that LGBTI Africans are a product of Western influence, pointing out that "LGBTI Africans have lived peacefully and productively beside us throughout history."