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Just a few months after P.M.News exposed the immoral activities in his church at Jakande Estate, Isolo, Lagos, Reverend Jide Rowland Macaulay, the gay pastor, has resurfaced on the internet to continue his ministry through poems which glorify gay sexuality.
Just a few months after P.M.News exposed the immoral activities in his church at Jakande Estate, Isolo, Lagos, Reverend Jide Rowland Macaulay, the gay pastor, has resurfaced on the internet to continue his ministry through poems which glorify gay sexuality.
The self-acclaimed voice for the sexual minority of homosexuals, bi-sexuals, transvestites and transgenders is a member of The Poetry Digest magazine on Facebook, published by Kafayat Quadri.
The online magazine is subscribed and contributed to by people from all over the world. In his poetry, published in the Digest, particularly a major one which he entitled: 'African Queer Brother', he glorifies God for creating him in the way he is and claims that the Almighty is a queer God who creates queer people through his 'wasteful generousity.'
In the first stanza, he starts by saying, 'I am Queer and there is nothing I can do about that/There are millions of Queer people in Africa/I am in love with Queer people/I am in love with myself.'
The fourth stanza starts by proclaiming that, 'I am shaped through the wasteful generousity of God/In Love, to Joy, with Grace, much Queer.'
The troubled man of God adds a bit of raunchiness while describing his relationship with God: 'When I move, my rhythmic curves Celebrate the Almighty/ My God is Queer who spends time with Queer people/In time of trouble and time of peace.' He also explains his sexuality as one created by God, out of love.
In the second stanza, he gives an unapologetic description of himself. 'There is little I can do about that too/Neither can I change the colour of my Hair or Skin/I am Queer from the sole of my feet to the tail of my hair.'
He continues in the third stanza with a strong use of seductive language: 'My Afro kinki hair is Queer/Brown eyes devouring queering beauty/Broad nose distinctively in set queerness/Full lips, mouth singing of God's glory'.
He ends the poem in the fifth stanza with the first two lines reading: 'I am your African Queer Brother/Rooted in Africanism and culturalism,' which is a total contrast to the true African belief on sexuality. The last two lines end on a note of plea; 'I cannot live without you and I pray you will not abandon me/I am Queer I know am Queer.'
In another poem entitled: 'Transformation', and this appears as a commentary on God's perfection or imperfection, as He created all things ‘good' and ‘bad', pure and with warts. Rev. Macaulay speaks in this poem about his sexuality and life, claiming that these chose him, and he had no say in the way he was made: 'My Life I choose Not,/My Location I choose Not,/My sexuality I choose Not'. And, it is not difficult to read from these lines that the poet considers God as the author and finisher of human creation.
On his Facebook page, Rev. Macaulay states that he is writing for as many people that struggle with reconciling sexuality and spirituality and backs it up with bible readings from the book of Romans, chapter 9.