I knew before watching what was to come from the documentary, Britain’s Witch Children; a shameful indictment on African culture that would humiliate us in front of our non-African friends and relatives. It would make African Christianity seem primitive and fraudulent, and the belief in the ancient practice of witchcraft also irrational and naïve.
“They clap, stamp and build up into a religious ecstasy until they ‘catch the Spirit’–the Holy Spirit visits the worshipper, who begins to sway, shout, speak in tongues and eventually fall to the ground in a trance-like state.”
My father was an assistant pastor in our church. My siblings and I had never known anything different. Church was our life. Our life was our church…For all of my apparent ignorance, I could neither deny nor ignore what my eyes, my hormones, and my libido were telling me: I WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.
For a long time the Bible has been misused to support prejudice; apartheid, segregation, slavery, and the second-class citizenship of women. Now it’s being used/misused to condemn gay people.
