According to well-placed and reliable sources in the offices of the president and chief minister, the government of Sierra Leone headed by President Julius Maada Bio and the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) is working on a law to legalise homosexuality in Sierra Leone.
Our sources informed us that the work is well on the way for people falling under the LGBT [lesbians, gays, bisexuals and people in transition (called trans/transgender)] demographic to be legally recognised in Sierra Leone. Nightwatch was informed that all this is being done as part of the requirement for Sierra Leone to be given the MCC grant by the US government.
It is no secret that the government is broke. According to the Auditor General’s Reports spanning 2018 to 2022, duty bearers in the Bio led regime have spent the public purse in ways such monies weren’t intended, for which the SLPP government is in desperate need of consistent funding streams to meet the financial cost of administering the state.
“Sodom and Gomorrah have come to Sierra Leone. Because the government is broke and needs money, the offices of the president and the chief minister are working on introducing the law to recognise, protect and legalise same-sex relationships, marriages and right to adopt children. This is very worrisome. Sierra Leone already has lots of problems the government is unable to solve. We do not need God’s wrath to come down on us the same way He dealt with Sodom and Gomorrah,” one of our sources pleaded.
Sodom and Gomorrah are two of the five “cities of the plain” referred to in Genesis 13:12 and Genesis 19:29 that rebelled against Chedorlaomer of Elam, to whom they were subject. At the Battle of Siddim, Chedorlaomer defeated them and took many captives, including Lot, the nephew of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham. Abraham gathered his men, rescued Lot, and freed the cities. Later, God gave advance notice to Abraham that Sodom had a reputation for wickedness, the sin of homosexuality, and that He was about to wipe the cities out. Abraham asked God: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?” (Genesis 18:23). Starting at 50 people, Abraham negotiated with God to spare Sodom if 10 righteous people could be found.
When God sent two angels to destroy Sodom, Lot welcomed them into his home, but all the men of the town surrounded the house and demanded that he surrenders the visitors that they may “know” or have sex with them. Lot offered the mob his virgin daughters to “do to them as you please”, but they refused and threatened to do worse to Lot. The angels struck the crowd blind.
The angels told Lot: “…the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it” (Genesis 19:13). The next morning, because Lot had lingered, the angels took Lot, Lot’s wife, and his two daughters by the hand and out of the city, and told him to flee to the hills and not look back. Lot said that the hills were too far away and asked to go to Zoar instead. Then God rained sulphur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground (Genesis 19:24–25). Lot and his two daughters were saved, but his wife disregarded the angels’ warning, looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.
The moral of the story is that homosexual or same-sex relationship is wicked. The Lord severally spoke against it in the Bible, promising that no homosexual offender will see heaven. At present people in Sierra Leone are getting used to seeing young male and female homosexuals operating in the open. However, with the alleged law that the Maada Bio government is working on lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans-people will get the legal protection of the law to operate without being arrested or worse.
According to a ruling party Member of Parliament (MP), “This law will pass in Parliament because we (the SLPP) have a majority. The only way it will not pass if it comes up for voting is if fellow MPs have a conscience and, remembering our oaths and fearing God, vote against it. This law is like selling the soul of the nation for money. When the idea of legalising homosexuality in Ghana came up because that country needed financial aid, the president, his government and people together rejected it and told the westerners to keep their money. The same happened in Uganda. But Sierra Leone is about to join the list of nations supporting this wicked thing that God is against because we are so desperate to get the MCC grant money. No nation should mortgage its morality because of money.”
Meanwhile, homosexuality is legal in 24 out of the 54 African countries, only one country’s military allows openly gay people to serve. Only 2 out of the 54 countries recognise homosexual relationships. Discrimination against homosexuals is not allowed in 10 out of the 54 countries· However, same-sex marriage is constitutionally banned in 9 out of the 54 countries, with only 1 allowing gays and lesbians to legally adopt children.
In 2006 South Africa became the first country in Africa – and one of just a few nations worldwide at the time to legalise same-sex marriage. Lonta!