Animals, men and the lawmakers By Reuben Abati ONE of the fall-outs of the reality of globalization is the tendency in developing countries, in an attempt to keep up with the rest of the world, to imitate nearly every pattern or fad in the West, without passing same through the filter of anthropomorphic priority or socio-cultural need, or developmental relevance. Only a week ago, so much dust was kicked up in Abuja when homosexuals, NGOs accessing foreign funding for the promotion of homosexuality, and the anti-gay movement stormed the National Assembly to argue over whether or not persons of a certain kind of sexual orientation should be allowed the freedom of their choice. The position of the extant law is that sodomy is a crime in Nigeria and the meaning of marriage is a union between a man and a woman. I wonder why the National Assembly thinks that it needs another law to re-affirm this. But nothing for me demo...
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