Gay marriage: Counselling better than 14-year jail term, say Christian theologians

THE Association of Christian Theologians (ACT), a Christian regulatory body in the country, at the weekend lent its voice to the raging debate over the 14-year jail term punishment recently endorsed by President Goodluck Jonathan for offenders of gay practice or same-sex marriage.

  Giving a reaction to the new law, the National President of the ACT, Prof. Kunle Macaulay said it was a law that sought to kill an ant with a sledge-hammer.
  Reacting for the ACT, Macaulay said rather than impose a 14-year jail term on those engaged in gay practice, government should seek for ways of assisting the offenders, as the act is more of a psychic problem than crime indulgence.
  “As far as I’m concerned, it is not the law that matters. We’ve seen laws being broken in this country. If you make a law that says offenders of gay practice should be jailed for 14 years, these people can always retreat indoors and do it secretly. And once the practice festers in secrecy, it makes a mockery of the law itself.”Read on HERE