SENEGAL — Where Pink Meets Black
Had enough of intimidation by the powerful homosexual lobby? So have many people, now a leading international soccer player has said enough is enough.
If you are not a fan of the misnamed beautiful game, you will probably not have heard of Idrissa Gueye. Known by his first name, he has played for two English clubs but signed with Paris Saint-Germain in July 2019. Idrissa is a Senegalese national, and a Moslem. As he also married a white woman, one would imagine he could do nothing wrong with the alphabet brigade. Imagine again – Idrissa has come under fire for refusing to wear a “gay pride” shirt on the pitch.
Senegal is a former French colony. France has a rather convoluted legal history as far as homosexuality is concerned, it will suffice to say that it was decriminalised decades ago and homosexual “marriage” was legalised in 2013.
In Senegal though, homosexuality remains illegal. Unlike most of the Western world, the denizens of Africa haven’t lost their collective minds on this issue. Senegal is also an overwhelmingly Islamic nation, so homosexuality is a double taboo there. According to the Daily Mail, Idrissa has been told to speak out now, or he is effectively validating discrimination.
So let’s get this straight – pun intended – unless he wears a “gay pride” shirt he is discriminating against homosexuals? Anything else they’d like him to do, wear a dress to show solidarity with the trans movement? How about forcing him to bake a cake for a homosexual “couple” and fining him if he refuses?
It’s difficult to believe that within living memory homosexuals were a genuinely persecuted minority in the Western world, that they could be prosecuted and sent to prison for having consensual sex with other men. Now the boot is well and truly on the other foot, but not the football boot in this case.
This “gay shirt” business was to “celebrate” an International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia”. Here is a counter suggestion, if you don’t want people to hate you, stop pushing them around, and even more important, stop trying to poison the minds of the young.
Thankfully, Idrissa isn’t without his supporters, including the President of Senegal.