Been thinking about this for some time. A columnist in the Monitor newspaper commented that the Catholic Church in Uganda was manifesting wisdom in not contributing to the ‘debate on homosexuality’ in the country. The ‘debate’ is rather one sided, and is more of a diatribe on the evil of homosexuality…, my sexual orientation. Is the Catholic Church in Uganda’s silence one of wisdom? Maybe. And maybe not.
I have compared their silence to playing deaf, dumb and blind. I have also compared them to Pope Pius the XII (so called the Nazi Pope, or Hitler’s Pope). And no, am not shy about calling them out. Hypocrites; the silence serves their purpose well.
Reminds me of one of the
Nazarene’s teaching parables.
A traveller was ambushed on the road by robbers. They beat and left him for
dead. Other travellers passed the robbers’ victim on the side of the road. They
noticed him, but left him…, for some very logical reasons. Maybe the Levite
didn’t want to be ‘polluted’, and maybe one of the others was hurrying to a
wedding…, whatever. Till the ‘Good Samaritan’ stopped and helped the victim of
robbery…, silence prevailed.
Cogent reasons not to speak out and act. Very logical and good, maybe.
The country is on fire, ready to lynch the homosexuals. Would the very powerful Catholic Church please stand up and say something? Well, the Moslems have had their say. The Anglicans have had their say. The Pentecostals have also had their say. What of the Catholics? Are they leaving everything to the politicians? It is supposedly a ‘moral’ debate.
Why is the Catholic Church in
Uganda silent?
Have they released a statement? They
were waiting for the ‘entire bill’. Still on its way to Rubaga?
I must have been asleep. I didn’t hear…! Or they are yet to say anything?
Maybe the reasons are political. The Pontiff, Pope Francis, has not been silent. Homosexuality is a sin. He is definite. And, criminalising it is not okay. Unequivocal, and vocal, repeatedly. How can the Catholic Church in Uganda go against the Pontiff when he has made his mind known? Bad politics, at the very least.
What if the Pontiff is wrong? These are sinners, the homosexuals. Isn’t the mighty Catholic Church of a mind to reserve them for hell on earth, life in prison, and Death? Or are they against the death penalty? [In principle, as the head of the Church of Uganda hurries to admit. In principle, reality is different.]
Could it be that the mighty Catholic Church in Uganda dare not admit that these are sinners, just like the ones Christ used to associate with?
Or, is it that the popularity of rabid condemnation of the minority homosexuals in Uganda is not good to go against, for the moral power and popularity of the Church, Christ’s Church? One needs to remind ones’ self that it does matter, popularity. It takes guts to champion homosexuals in Uganda in anyway… That is brutal matter of fact.
Or could it be that the
homosexuals are such bad sinners that no hand need be lifted to help or aid
them in their plight.
Leave them to die on the side of the road, I would judge. Good riddance, to bad
evil. Why waste time, energy, prestige and even thinking about them?
Yes, I am strongly reminded
of the stance of Pope Pious XII.
He was strangely silent through the Holocaust of the Third Reich. So much that
he was branded ‘Hitler’s Pope’, and a silent Nazi sympathiser to the genocide
of Jews. And, yes, those with the pink triangles were homosexuals. Gassed in
gas chambers by Hitler too, they haven’t improved in the popularity context
since, apparently!
Oh, I am certain that the mighty
and powerful Catholic Church in Uganda is silent because they totally agree and
support Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023.
That is why I am poking at them…, it is good fun!
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