Senegal is giving lifetime jail sentences to some gays. This is wrong. People should have the
freedom to be gay if they so choose (for God has given us freewill). When a state plays "theocracy", it gets cluttered by man.
ON THE OTHER HAND - this does NOT mean that Christians should support legalizing gay marriage--for that is a stamp of approval of the sinful act.
GOD will be the judge, jury & yes, executioner when this is all done down here. NOT the SENEGAESE government.......
"DAKAR, Senegal – The president of Gambia has signed a bill into law that calls for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, the latest African country to codify harsh penalties for the gay community.
A copy of the legislation, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, indicates that President Yahya Jammeh signed it on Oct. 9, though no government officials have yet publicly notified the country of the new law. Jammeh, one of Africa's most vocal anti-gay leaders, instructed gays and lesbians in 2008 to leave the country or risk decapitation.
Amnesty International recently reported that Gambian security forces are torturing people arrested in raids, threatening them with rape and pressuring them to confess to homosexual acts.
The recent arrests are the first under the new law, Amnesty said Thursday. The group said at least four men, a 17-year-old boy and nine women have reportedly been arrested in recent weeks on suspicion of committing homosexual acts. An earlier statement described how the suspects were detained at the headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency in Banjul." FOX
ON THE OTHER HAND - this does NOT mean that Christians should support legalizing gay marriage--for that is a stamp of approval of the sinful act.
GOD will be the judge, jury & yes, executioner when this is all done down here. NOT the SENEGAESE government.......
"DAKAR, Senegal – The president of Gambia has signed a bill into law that calls for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, the latest African country to codify harsh penalties for the gay community.
A copy of the legislation, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, indicates that President Yahya Jammeh signed it on Oct. 9, though no government officials have yet publicly notified the country of the new law. Jammeh, one of Africa's most vocal anti-gay leaders, instructed gays and lesbians in 2008 to leave the country or risk decapitation.
Amnesty International recently reported that Gambian security forces are torturing people arrested in raids, threatening them with rape and pressuring them to confess to homosexual acts.
The recent arrests are the first under the new law, Amnesty said Thursday. The group said at least four men, a 17-year-old boy and nine women have reportedly been arrested in recent weeks on suspicion of committing homosexual acts. An earlier statement described how the suspects were detained at the headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency in Banjul." FOX
GOD sets the boundaries of right & wrong - when we step outside of those lines we call it SIN, & He has Justification to give us.....BUT....He expects us to step back inside those lines which is called Sanctification.
Wash you, make you clean;
put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:16,18