Kenyans and their marriage proposals

part1

Just after the US legalised gay marriages across the country, president Robert Mugabe took to the airwaves mocking the ruling and sarcastically said he will travel to White House to ask Obama for his hand in marriage.

Mugabe, an homophobe by any definition has always been a crusader against gays and says "they are worse than pigs and dogs."

But now a Kenyan man, Karanja Nzisa, who is open about his gay status has decided that Mugabe needs to be schooled a little more.

Dear Uncle Bob,

I have to say Uncle Bob, for a man your age, you are rather 'easy on the eye' as they say, but I do not think President Obama would agree to your proposal. Actually, I can give you a million reasons why even a hopeless gay man would say no to you - least of which is your repulsion to the gays - but that is not the subject. Your 'proposal' which was obviously meant to make a mockery of Obama's support of equal marriage rights for all even if he would not himself marry a man was grossly desperate. Not only was it in poor taste, it is in its most basic (as only it can be) form idiotic. For a man with all the education you have had the privilege of being exposed to, I would have thought it would come easily to you that a man will only marry another because he is attracted to men and has taken a special liking for the one he is to marry. Just like you did with either of your wives. As will now be the case for the thousands of homosexual couples that Obama's historic and progressive law has made possible. People marry those whom they love. Love wears no face. Love does not settle only in the hearts of a singular type. It is not defined by gender or sex. That is the human condition. You are flawed as we all are Uncle Bob. But it is when a man who is fading into oblivion like you have starts to clutch at straws in attempts to maintain even an iota of relevance that you stop being just flawed and become a sad spectacle. The world has little respect for those. Perhaps you are a little befuddled and given your advanced years, this can be forgiven. But you must be willing to accept help seeing straight. You are not a moral authority Uncle Bob. Especially not one informed or given right by ecclesiastical doctrine. Now if ever in some otherworldly space this were remotely true, it is no longer so. Not with your systemic institutionalisation of racism in a country which you built up only to tear down as if for sport. Not with the continuous pillaging of Zimbabwe's public purse orchestrated by your beloved Gucci Grace and the cronies you keep close. Nearer to your person, definitely not with the taking of someone's wife as your own forgetting that which you actually made a commitment to before the very God in whose name you condemn homosexuals. It is therefore confusing to me that you will draw from scriptures you hold no more sacrosanct than scribbling paper to attack a group of people who you choose to see as undeserving of respect.

It must be a bad time to be a homophobe Uncle Bob. Surrounded by South Africa, Mozambique and even Kenya where today I walk in public; fingers locked with my partner's own. Perhaps you should do yourself a favour and soften your stance on this matter. Then you do not have to propose to men you do not like. I in fact encourage you to stick to your heterosexuality. See how well the politics of inclusion work? Ease the stress on your deficient heart. This way, the next time you trip, it will just be the optics you will have to worry about.

Sincerely ,

Karanja Nzisa.