Petunias cannot help themselves. They over reach. And it causes blowback.

I don’t think that our homosexual brothers and sisters should be blackmailed. But they should be shoved in the same category as those heterosexuals who cohabit out of marriage. They need to be taught that what you are doing is fornication, and repent.

No one said self control and continence was easy. But outside of marriage we must have this: within marriage also.

Since 2012, the American government has put more than $700 million into supporting gay rights groups and causes globally. More than half of that money has focused on sub-Saharan Africa — just one indication of this continent’s importance to the new policy.

America’s money and public diplomacy have opened conversations and opportunities in societies where the subject was taboo just a few years ago. But they have also made gay men and lesbians more visible — and more vulnerable to harassment and violence, people on both sides of the gay rights issue contend. The American campaign has stirred misgivings among many African activists, who say they must rely on the West’s support despite often disagreeing with its strategies.

In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, the final passage of the 2014 law against homosexuality — which made same-sex relationships punishable by 14 years in prison and made it a crime to organize or participate in any type of gay meeting — is widely regarded by both supporters and opponents of gay rights as a reaction to American pressure on Nigeria and other African nations to embrace gay rights.

“The Nigerian law was blowback,” said Chidi Odinkalu, chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission and the senior legal officer for the Africa Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative, which supports gay rights on the continent. “You now have situations of gay men being molested on the streets or taunted. That was all avoidable.”

“I’ve said to U.S. diplomats privately as well — the risk is causing more harm than good,” Mr. Odinkalu added. “You don’t want an infusion of good will to actually do harm to the community that you think you’re protecting.”

Anti-gay sentiments are widespread across Africa. Same-sex relations remain illegal in most nations, the legacy of colonial laws that had been largely forgotten until the West’s push to repeal them in recent years.

Fierce opposition has come from African governments and private organizations, which accuse the United States of cultural imperialism. Pressing gay rights on an unwilling continent, they say, is the latest attempt by Western nations to impose their values on Africa.

“In the same way that we don’t try to impose our culture on anyone, we also expect that people should respect our culture in return,” said Theresa Okafor, a Nigerian active in lobbying against gay rights.

You cannot push an anticolonial and post modern relativist agenda without someone saying that our opinions are equal to yours, and telling to you disappear. What has got the NY Times in a knot is that subsaharan africa is primarily Christian and thus not a protected group. They forget that the Muslims kill gays routinely.

But the Muslims are protected.

Further, the district said the assignment was “consistent with the Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning and the requirements for content instruction on world monotheistic religions.”

But parents say that other religions were not represented. Parents told The Schilling Show that “the Koran was presented to students, the Bible was not. The teacher reportedly declined to provide a Bible because all the students have either read or seen a Bible.”

Female students were also encouraged to wear a hijab, it was reported.

When asked about the hijab, the district explained the students were merely being taught about “modest dress adopted by many in the Islamic faith and were invited to try on a scarf as a part of an interactive lesson about the Islamic concept of modest dress.”

“The scarf used in the activity was not an actual Islamic religious hijab,” the district stated.

This isn’t the only instance of students learning about Islam in a way that would probably not be permitted for Christianity. At Vernon Hills High School in Chicago, the Muslim Student Association held an event that “gave students of other religions an opportunity to wear the hijab in tan attempt to challenge stereotyping of Muslims.”

Charli Mosley, a junior at the school, said while wearing a red hijab: “With more people wearing a hijab around school, it could bring more acceptance to the religion and have more people become more aware.”

This will not end well. Culture matters: and culture runs downhill from religion. If you are told your duty is war, and that taking women by force is a rightful reward for fighting for that demon Allah, then expect violence. If you are told to pray for your enemies, there will be less violence. If you are taught that Christ loves all nations, then you will send refugees to pray and teach, not armies of your young men to take, steal, and destroy.

For by the consequences of your actions you will know them. The US domestic and foriegn policies have been a disaster. The pushback will come, and it will not be gentle.

We need to pray that our leaders, therefore, repent and reform our states, while they still have power. For without power they will have an accounting: in this life or the next.