The Rasta view on homosexuality?
Posted on April 22, 2007
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He is 60 years of age, an elder in a particular Rasta community where the brethren are, as he says, ‘constantly seeking to understand themselves in the ‘present dispensation’, which he considers to be, less introspective and more in the need to define a strategy for social and economic survival in a land that has been hostile to Rasta even up to the present time.
He is university educated and is considered an authority on certain aspects of our cultural heritage especially our music and politics. Years ago he was a contemporary of some of those who now tread haughtily through the halls of political power. He was one of them then when they would meet to smoke herb as sacrament and to engage in forums of social and political thought.
Years ago when they opted for closer engagement with the political process he chose the lesser lights, preferring to confine his teaching to the community, the children and especially the young men of the present generation who seem to be going nowhere fast.
Today he remains physically lean as he always was, while his political friends of the past have been oiled and fattened by the juicy hog of politics. He sought me out because he had a burning desire to present a Rasta view on homosexuality especially in light of the recent mob actions (Half-Way-Tree and Montego Bay) against men said to be ‘openly homosexual’.
“For obvious reasons, I do not want my name to be published because our society is a small, closed one where ignorance abounds and there are always aplenty, those who would want to victimise some of us who have too strong a viewpoint on a subject as touchy as male/male sexual pairing,” he said.
For the purpose of this column I will call him Soul Rebel. Read more….
Source: The Jamaica Observer
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