As a born again, I consider the ‘Bahati Bill’ anti-Christian

It is a pity that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is being supported by many Christians. Laughable still, is the fact that some of the proponents of this Bill are prominent church ministers with post graduate degrees in theology etc.

Christians are some of the greatest hypocrites who always stumble at the truth and pretend not to have seen it. Mind you I’m a born-again Christian!

I remember a story of a US Christian Senator who was a staunch fighter for the restoration of the 10 Commandments in American public schools. He was put to task by a journalist to name the 10 Commandments one by one. The Senator lamented: “All of them?’’ The journalist replied: “Yes, all them.’’ The journalist started counting using his fingers, one, two, three… the Senator kept silent. This ‘Christian’ Senator did not know a single commandment.

Such are the antics of today’s Christians; they draw near to God with their lips but their hearts are very far away from him (Mark 7:6). Most Christians do not know the history of Christianity, they can not defend themselves using the word of God and have never studied even one third of the Bible. They always say, “The Bible says judge not’’ yet John 7:24 advocates righteous judgments. They are often threatened by their pastors with curses for failing to tithe, but cannot put their pastors to task to explain why the first Christians in the book of Acts never tithed. Do you know that many Christians today blindly put on inverted occult crosses? This is hypocrisy!

I do not support the ‘Bahati Bill’ because my Lord Jesus Christ did not come to kill, but to save the lost ones from their sins (Luke 9:56). Secondly, we live in the New Testament period of grace where the mosaic law of killing homosexuals is redundant and overboard and superfluous.

There is absolutely no scripture in the New Testament that allows fighting sin using state municipal law. The first Christians in the book of Acts never fought sin using state municipal law (Acts 11:26). If we want to legislate basing on moral principles, then we should also criminalise masturbation, fornication and adultery. Before we make a draconian law on homosexuality, let us begin with one that will sentence to death the thugs who have stolen billion of Chogm, Naads funds.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies to the family. Even if the Bahati Bill is passed, the homosexuals will bribe their way out, given the corruption in our society. Christians should have nothing to do with this Bill.

George Michael Kizito,
Kizitomg@gmail.com

Christmas festivities should not leave you poor and tormented
Some people are miserable and tormented simply because they did not have enough money to enjoy Christmas. Many people have a misconception that Christmas means over spending,
eating and drinking which they mistakenly refer to as fun.

This is vagabond behaviour because the Son of God whose birth is remembered and celebrated every December 25 was not lavish as the celebrants want to be. I therefore pity whoever loses weight because he/ she has had no or little meat on Christmas Day. Some people even fail to go for prayers! Who will tell in church that so and so has eaten beans or greens and not meat or who will chase you out of church because you are wearing an old cloth.

Why don’t you fear your God instead of believing in clothes, rice, meat matooke and soda? It really hurts me to see some people opting to borrow money for Christmas Day and in the beginning of the New Year, they are toiling to pay off the debt; some even get jailed. This is a spiritual event when we celebrate the birth of the Saviour, so everybody should celebrate the fact that you were saved by Jesus’ precious blood and not by what you are eating or wearing.
Andrew Gulumaire,
Jinja

Media key in democratic electoral process
The media as the gatekeepers of both information and democracy plays a vital role in the electoral process.

The notion that once election day comes, the media simply stops at reporting the events should be revisited. The importance of the media should continue to grow in the whole electoral process.

As the Electoral Commission has made the roadmap for the 2011 general elections, it should also organise training workshops for journalists on electoral processes ahead of polling day and the training should focus on the role of the press in the elections and the electoral laws relating to journalism.
These will increase awareness of the importance of free and fair election coverage by journalists.

If journalists receive such trainings, the information on electoral laws, will definitely have a bearing on their job and will guarantee fair, free and efficient elections. This is crucial in building our democracy.