Posted on 10/24/2022 6:35:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Practicing homosexuality constitutes a criminal offence in Zambia and the law has to be respected,' declared the bishops' conference of the southern African nation.
LUSAKA, Zambia (LifeSiteNews) – In a united affirmation of the Church’s moral teaching, the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has issued one of the strongest statements to date of a bishops’ conference condemning homosexual acts as disordered and sinful and calling the Church’s “erring children, including those with homosexual tendencies … to do what is right before God and men.”
The statement was issued as a press release on September 29, 2022, signed by Rev. Fr. Francis Mukosa, Secretary General of the ZCCB, in response to controversy on social media and in the press following a strong statement made by the Archbishop of Lusaka, Alick Banda, on September 17, which called attention to “an increase in the number of incidents and events that promote LGBTG+ tendencies contrary to the Laws of Zambia and our Zambian culture.”
Detailing a number of incidents, the archbishop stated, “On Tuesday the 17th May 2022, the Swedish and Finnish Embassies in Lusaka flew gay pride flags, contrary to the provisions of article 20 of the Vienna Convention[.]”
“On Saturday, the 3rd September 2022, a company called PR Girl Media Limited hosted an event dubbed ‘Lusaka July 2022’ at Lusaka Polo Club. Pictures and videos that emerged from this event showed attendants double dressing in attires of the opposite sex and appearing to promote LGBTQ+ behaviour.”
Citing several other cases of sodomy, which have met with “the displeasure and disapproval of the general public,” the archbishop then denounced the Zambian president and police for failing to apply Zambia’s laws, which criminalize sodomy, saying, “the law enforcement agents and the President who took oath to protect the Constitution seem to be........
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What would happen if the USCCB said that?
The African Church is the last bastion of sanity.
Get the popcorn cooker fired up!! d;^)
Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. (Acts 10:36-47) Thanks be to God.
according to the CDC (chart), in 2017 male to male sexual contact was the mode of transmission in 93% of new HIV cases among male youth aged 13 to 24, and MSM accounted for 82% of diagnoses among males and 70% of all new HIV diagnoses, and 2 out of every 3 diagnoses in the United States. Which is despite only representing approximately 4% of the male population). . Also, "transgender women [worldwide] are 49 times more likely to have HIV than other adults of reproductive age." (Transgender people)
Likewise is 2019:
Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 83% (6,385) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2019, and 81% of diagnoses overall of HIV infection among Adolescents and Young Adults, and 92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact:
And which practice is primarily responsible for more than 700,000 people with AIDS having died since the beginning of the epidemic - despite decades of attempting to tame it into being "safe." (Worldwide, 77.3 million people have contracted HIV and 35.4 million have died of AIDS-related illnesses since the beginning of the pandemic in 1981: https://health.usnews.com/conditions/hiv-aids/articles/hiv-statistics.)
Also, sodomy is one manner of fornication, and which sin is primarily responsible for one out of 5 Americans having a sexually transmitted infection. Which affect all others, at least finacially: "STIs and their complications amount to about $16 billion annually in direct medical costs. HIV imposes the largest financial burden, costing $12.6 billion in direct medical costs, followed by HPV at $1.7 billion, chlamydia at $156.7 million, gonorrhea at $162.1 million, and syphilis at $39.9 million." (https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/STI-brief.pdf)
More.
Yet again, we all are sinners, if repentant and characterized by overall obedience to God if faithful to God, and there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. (Acts 10:36-47) Thanks be to God.
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