A Letter from Lailasblog’s
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Hello Laila,
Anglican Church has been shamelessly promoting discrimination against
women and I CAN NO LONGER KEEP QUITE. This rubbish going on in the Anglican Church
has to stop. Any form of gender bias is ungodly.
This church mandate that
couple who want to get married must go for pregnancy test 2 weeks before
wedding and if the woman is found to be even a day pregnant then she will be
humiliated while the husband who got her pregnant will go scoot free.
I am elated when my friend invited me to her wedding which was supposed
to hold at All saints cathedral Onitsha. I was billed to serve as one of her
train. Imagine my shock when I got there 3 days to the wedding day only to see
my friend crying herself to bits. She has lost a lot of weight and would not
eat or be consoled. When I inquired to know what was eating her up. She told me
she was pregnant and I was like she should be celebrating after all her
wedding was in 2 days time while her traditional wedding was done almost 2
months back. That was when she spilled the beans.
She told me that the Church said that she would wear black wedding gown
because she was not supposed to get pregnant before the wedding day. I was
bemused. Worse is that they will not even inform you of this stupid law until
you must have paid the wedding fee of N30,000. At that point, They will only
have you at their mercy because its already late for you to change venue and
your invitation cards may have been all sent out. The part that worries me
greatly is that the women are the target of this new discriminatory law.
This is the 21st century for crying out loud. Why would the bride alone
be punished for something that she and the groom did? Why would the groom be
allowed to adorned his full tuxedo while the bride is forced into some hideous
clothing. Yes, No sex before marriage is good but honestly it is outdated to
not understand your partners sexuality before marriage. Worse is that some
impotent people hide under the guise of born again to deceive other innocent
people into marriages. Now when you finally end up with a barren or impotent
partner, the same church will tell you that you must never divorce. Hell no.
This lunacy must stop. The Anglican Communion must clean up its mess and stop
attacking women.
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