Chesterfield Samba - don't kill the joy and stop looking at issues through gay eyes

I have nothing against gays and lesbians. I have friends who are openly gay. One of them a young girl whom I eat with everyday. Work with. Share secrets with. Discuss women with. One I call any time. 

She is an intelligent girl who can stand her own in the world of men. 

I am saying this in response to Chestefield Samba's article: Mliswa avoid battles on terrain chosen by rulers! ran on Nehanda Radio.

Mliswa avoid battles on terrain chosen by rulers!

Mliswa avoid battles on terrain chosen by rulers!

I don't care how one has sex. It's their business. Whether they dig deep in the manure hole, I don't care. After all they would not be fucking me but themselves. But that should not stop Mliswa from using the word gay as a weapon in the fight against people he knows are gay. Zanu-PF does not like gays. It's not a secret. They could be known, but the fact that there are Zanu-PF gays who are causing problems is a big enough and much effective weapon to use. It shows the double standards within Zanu-PF.

Downplaying Mliswa's comments just because he has spoken about gays and just because one is gay themselves is subjective.

Of course, we all want clean water. Uninterrupted electricity. Good roads. Better schools and hospitals. Yes, we all want to live like human beings for Christ's sake. And this has nothing to do with whether one is gay or straight. There is no need to make the Temba Mliswa/ Jonathan Moyo fight a gay fight. For me, it's a Zanu-PF fight. And one that is being fought with everything and anything in sight. And being gay or not being gay is one of those weapons.

Samba should not look only at himself as being gay because at the back of this fight are allegations of Mliswa and the so-called dirty dozen eating with an American spy. And for me, Mliswa's use of the term gay as a weapon against the people who are accusing him of supping with Americans is meant to show how gays are easily accepted within the American communities.

Mliswa is saying: Look you call me a CIA spy yet you are gay!

Who does not know that being gay has been made a prerequisite for donor funding? Again here Mliswa is being labelled a CIA spy because he took American money. His argument is that he has taken American money but he knows gays who have also benefited from the Americans by virtue of them being gays. Hence the term gay gangsters. I don't see any diversion. Actually things are happening in Zanu-PF. One way or the other, the party must admit that there are gays in its ranks. That it should stop pretending about the gay issue. Let Mliswa speak his mind. This is a war. Any punch will help. And we should not look at it as a gay issue or straight issue. It's a political issue. And politics can get dirty. Don't kill the joy. Asunya arwa.