(LifeSiteNews) — In a ratification of long-standing regional norms, Niger’s military-based government enacted a new penal code explicitly criminalizing “LGBTQIA+ acts” that took effect on June 11.
The law imposes five to 10 years in prison plus fines for anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practices lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, Queer, intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) acts,” according to the statute quoted by the Associated Press.
It further stipulates that this “same penalty is applicable to persons who officiated the (homosexual) marriage, to the witnesses of the alleged spouses, as well as to persons who have given their consent for the celebration of the marriage and to the organizers.”
With its fellow West African nation of Senegal having legislated a similar measure in March, Niger joins the majority of African nations — roughly 31 of 54 — that maintain laws against same-sex acts due largely to broadly accepted moral and religious convictions.
Niger, an overwhelmingly Muslim landlocked nation with a Christian population of 1%-2%, is bordered by Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Algeria, Libya, and Chad.
Last September, lawmakers in Burkina Faso also recriminalized homosexual acts and Ghana approved a bill last month criminalizing the promotion of LGBTQ activity.
Africa continues to resist ‘degenerate’ LGBTQ+ imperialism from the west
These developments echo years of African resistance to Western promotion of the LGBTQ+ agenda, as often addressed by Catholic bishops in the region. For example, in a 2015 statement, the Nigerian bishops warned that “endorsing homosexual unions or ‘same-sex marriage’ will be devastating and detrimental to our nation of Nigeria, as it will lead to the inevitable deconstruction of the family and the society at large.”
They described Western efforts as “the persistent and continuous propagation and globalization of the homosexual lifestyle and the effort to redefine marriage which is a distorted view of human sexuality, coming especially from the Western world.”
The bishops urged legislators, media, educators, and parents to protect traditional marriage as “the sacred union of one man and one woman.”
In 2014, responding to Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama congratulated the government for refusing “to bow to international pressure in the promotion of unethical and immoral practices of same sex union and other related vices.”
“We commend you for this courageous and wise decision and pray that God will continue to bless, guide and protect you and your administration against the conspiracy of the developed world to make our country and continent, the dumping ground for the promotion of all immoral practices, that have continued to debase the purpose of God for man in the area of creation and morality, in their own countries,” he added.
In 2023, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, who leads the Christian-majority nation, advised that “Africa should provide the lead to save the world from this (LGBT) degeneration and decadence which is really very dangerous for humanity.”
“If people of (the) opposite sex stop appreciating one another, then how will the human race be propagated?”
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Would to Yahweh God that we would return to the same laws here!
The USA & most other “Western” nations have become Sodom & Gomorrah!
WHO DO YOU THINK THE LORD WILL DEAL MORE HARSHLY WITH AT THE JUDGEMENT??!!
In Sodom and Gomorrah, sexual deviancy was the norm. Really, really bad. In fact, so bad that God wiped them from the earth. Wasnt a righteous soul to be found.
The majority do not follow those ways.
BACK UP THE UHAUL, NIGER OR BUST! Now that’s righteous progress you may believe in! Planning my move to Niger today.
No! Abominable sexual deviancy sins in thought, word and deed are NOT immutable characteristics and unrepentant devil worshippers know this indisputable biological and theological fact full well, but they are on a con to deceive the misinformed otherwise, for their own temporary and finite, political, power, control and financial gain, in service to the demons they kneel to and possess them. Unrepentant devil worshipping sexual deviants would garner more empathy from our best humans if they were honest about their sin struggles and simply confessed they are slaves to unrepentant sexual deviancy abominable sins, and know they need help but they are deriving pleasure from their abominable sexual deviancy sins, so they don’t have the desire to quit their wicked ways. That’s something that will move an authentic Christian to empathy, (but not approval of their sins) not their “pride month” bullshit!
Amen, Brother!
Last out of the trees, and they are show whitey the cracker that fudge packing is wrong?
The sodomy problem is a jewish invention, which of course gets swept under the rug by the very dumb Christian population.
In muslim countries (and perhaps others), vile homosexual degenerates are ceremonially unalived.
Boomer Christians are the most brainwashed. Younger Christians are starting to see through the jew bullshit.
Dats muh Niger!
In the past, the USA would frown apon this. If they gave out a loan, countries had to accept homosexuality. Kudos to Niger