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Èèmọ̀ Ni Ki Ọkùnrin Fẹ́ Ọkùnrin Tàbi Ki Obinrin Fẹ́ Obinrin Ni Àṣà Yorùbá ” – “Same Sex Marriage Is A Strage Occurrence To Yoruba Traditional Marriage


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The Supreme Court upturned the traditional marriage culture in America.  On Friday, June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court once again ruled that “No State in America has the right to prevent gay and lesbian couple from getting married under the Law”.  The struggle for marriage equality has been on since forty six years ago, but in June 2013, the Supreme Court first ruled that “Same Sex Marriage be legalized and given the same right as that of Traditional Marriage” at the Federal level, to afford them such rights as inheritance, tax benefits and divorce.

The Supreme Court ruling was adopted because “Law and Order in America is based on respect for the Constitution and the Rule of Law”.  Since the announcement of this ruling, there has been outcry from all over the World against it, particularly from the Christians who came out to condemn American Government that such ruling is against the Law of God on marriage.

In Yoruba Culture, it is odd and a strange occurrence for a Man to marry a Man or for a Woman to marry a Woman.  In order for family not to go into extinction, child bearing is one of the most important purpose of marriage, hence if a man marries another man, they cannot bear children without adopting a child or have one through surrogate mother or if it is between woman to woman, one of them or both could have had children from previous traditional relationship or look for a man to impregnate one of them.

According to Yoruba adage “The culture in our home could be a taboo in another”, American Same Sex Marriage culture is a still a strange occurrence in Yoruba tradition.  Not all strange occurrence are and not all taboos are good, for example, in time past, it is a taboo to give birth to Albino, or twins.  As a result, one of the twins is either killed or the two of them thrown into the forest to die, but nowadays, the culture of throwing the twins or triplet in the forest has been stopped.  No one should be killed for the reason of colour of the skin or as a result of expression of love preference.  White Americans used their religious beliefs all in the name of Christianity to influence the Constitution to declare that African Americans were not full human beings, hence it was forbidden for Black American to marry a White American.  If they do, neither they nor their children were recognised as complete human being.  Without any consequence for their actions, they hid under this terrible Law to lynch/kill the African Americans in public, mostly after Church Service, without differentiating whether the slaves are from Yoruba land or other African Countries.  It took the American Civil War and amending the Constitution to accommodate a new Federal Law after the war to protect the African Americans from these wicked acts.  According to Yoruba adage “The culture in our home could be a taboo in another”, American Same Sex Marriage culture is a taboo in Yoruba tradition.  Not all taboos are good, for example, in time past, it is a taboo to give birth to Albino, or twins.  As a result, one of the twins is either killed or the two of them thrown into the forest to die, but nowadays, the culture of throwing the twins or triplet in the forest has been stopped.  No one should be killed for the reason of colour of the skin or as a result of expression of love preference.  White Americans used their religious beliefs all in the name of Christianity to influence the Constitution to declare that African Americans were not full human beings, hence it was forbidden for Black American to marry a White American and if they do, neither they nor their children were recognised as complete human being.  Without any consequence for their actions, they hid under this terrible Law to lynch/kill the African Americans in public, mostly after Church Service, without differentiating whether the slaves are from Yoruba land or other African Countries.  It took the American Civil War and amending the Constitution to accommodate a new Federal Law after the war to protect the African Americans from these wicked acts