This tour came on the back of other trips to Nairobi, with similar experiences and conclusions. Though warned to expect audience reticence it was quite the reverse. The Nairobian regularly publishes disapproving (for now) tales of sexual transgression, and Kenya leads the world in downloading gay porn. The tentacles of the Sex Revolution are touching Kenyans now. As a church and society, their issue is how best to respond.

They get it!

I spoke with countless Kenyans who are aware that the West has been engulfed by a radical Sex Revolution and they are worried sick they're next in line. They do not want its faux 'liberation'---they have problems enough as it is. Even the more Western-leaning understand its duplicity and wrong-headedness, how with its 'help' marriages and family life, already at breaking point for many, are further damaged.

Kenyans get The Big Picture, including the toxicity and covert totalitarianism of this revolution, its targeting of the young and its ideological imperialism---this time sans the gunboats. Indeed, economic threat is far more 'civilized': no rainbow flag, no benefits! Even worse, they are aghast at the passivity and silence of hitherto staunch Western evangelical allies. They cannot fathom what went wrong.

More than Romans 1 and 'Just Say No'

Kenyans want to face these challenges but need more than Romans 1 and 'Just Say No' to do so. Of course both are vital starting points but cannot adequately resist, expose and counter what is arguably our equivalent of CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength. We are dealing with a radical Sex Revolution which began with 'liberating' straight sexual relationships decades ago but has since moved on to 'liberate' all sorts of others as well. The Church ducked initially, fearful of being seen as anti-sex, prudish or 'judgemental'; little has changed.

Based on myths, fraud, endemic human brokenness and lures of sexual paradise (among other factors), the Sex Revolution was birthed in the 50s/60s but has since come into its own. It is increasingly operating as an ideological, cultural and political blitzkrieg, engulfing institutions, punishing public dissent, forcing those in the public sphere to collude or get out, and damaging those unfortunate to take up its promises. To be sure, it is not wholly bad, but in the main, its tenets are secular, hostile to faith and freedom of conscience, and actually anti-sex. 'Liberating' sex has damaged it in the process, along with marriage, family life and child-rearing.

In Britain the conditioning, embarrassment and dislike of anything graphic is such that good
Christian circles are almost always the most out-of-date, especially on controversial cultural matters 'in the world'. Though understandable, such a response is deeply concerning, given what is presently happening to the ethics and moral, spiritual and psycho-sexual formation of many Christian youngsters today, not to mention those outside the Church. And the damage done to invisible but powerful cultural norms and values which affect everyone is more alarming. That so many youngsters have 'gay' mates now makes this even worse; who wants to cause those who may have bitter life stories yet more misery?

Oh dear, what's happening in Britain?

Though British audiences duck, deny and deflect, Kenyan ones want to know. They asked to see what we are contending with now in the UK and were shown pages of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] curriculum in dozens of UK primary schools (starting at the age of 4). This curriculum includes simulated gay marriage rites for 8 year olds in 'LGBT safe' classrooms and 'princess boy' art assignments, with children conditioned to support the LGBT as a so-called protected 'class' (along with sex and race). Dissent is not tolerated: to be 'anti-gay' is to be a racist. They were shown NHS-endorsed sexual 'health' advice for gay lads which is either partially or completely inaccurate and which tacitly endorses high-risk sex acts. This 'advice' omits important biological facts about receptive anal intercourse which might put these lads off, but which go some way to explaining why boys who have sex with men are far more likely to become infected with HIV than those who have sex with females.

Kenyans understood how the LGBT is not the end but the beginning, and how unless it is pushed back, their children will be forced by an increasingly coercive State to approve those with other, more 'alternative' sexualities. Such individuals echo the LGBT verbatim, making the same claims and on the same basis: 'This is me and my identity; I was born this way; I have tried to change but cannot; I am not hurting anyone because my way of loving is a little different; I am tired of being discriminated against, etc.' Because mainstream media realize the public is not yet ready, in LGBT contexts it censors this development though in other contexts it hails 'progressive' kinds of sexuality and relationships. Regardless of timing, these minorities have had enough; they are 'coming out' now.

Kenyans were shown photos of committed Christians in the West (many of them black) who are hounded out of the public realm for affirming what Christians have believed over the centuries. Even worse, the Church ignores their plight or tacitly blames them for bringing it on themselves.

Pushback

So, I both exposed the challenges --- how far-reaching the rot had gone --- but then gave my Kenyan audiences 'ammunition' for a counter offensive, and in particular, what they could say to their wives and husbands, children, churches, strugglers, professionals and NGOs, adapting it to their cultural milieu.

I gave politically incorrect but accurate medical science on the different kinds of sex and what is involved anatomically, physiologically, psychologically and the corresponding risks. I updated them on how and why early sex, and multiple partner sex, is so damaging, and the oxymoron of 'safe sex' via condom-use. I exposed the fraudulent 'scientific' basis of and claims for the Sex Revolution and how its Father (Kinsey) suffered from impotency and sickening masochist habits. Pornography, the gateway by which many begin their journey of 'liberation', is not the harmless bit of 'naughty fun' but rather a powerful drug which can destroy real sex and relationships. I offered a framework by which to help sexual strugglers, and in fact groups have already been established to help strugglers, those with HIV/AIDs etc. No one is born gay and people can and do move out of gay lifestyles with (and without) counselling, support and help. But walking with strugglers is paramount!

I showed how they must stop the LGBT offensive before it is too late and stand with the victims and martyrs. I also exposed the myths attached to 'committed, loving gay relationships' which many assume to be 'exclusive' i.e. sexually-closed or monogamous. That this is not necessarily so, and indeed, that Western gay marriage advocates publicly boast they have the best of both worlds via a 'monogamish' model (sexually-open but committed) must be known. Married heterosexuals are being duped by the notion of having their cake and eating it----little do they know that 'monogamish' has been tried before, and for married heterosexuals, failed.

Doing this kind of exposing, educating and updating enabled my hearers to begin to move from the back to the front foot, as it were. They could start to reclaim sex as holy and good. Bodies, marriage, intercourse, babies and family are divine creations, and we need to be at the forefront of celebrating them! From this basis we then can positively tackle the challenges of the Sex Revolution, reframe the debate and reclaim lost ground. We uphold a full Gospel view of human sexuality and take it to a world which desperately needs its good news, its offer of forgiveness and a new start, hope of healing and restoration for individuals, marriages, families and communities.

What next?

Four suggestions come to mind.

First, please pray for the African church, its leaders and faith communities, those at the forefront of addressing these issues in Africa and around the globe. Bishop Joseph Mutungi of Machakos is fearless and will be a global champion. He needs prayer!

Second, if you feel the approach, really an apologetic, above is helpful, please give it publicity. Or get back to me if you feel I am have missed key bits.

Third, the Machakos Diocese has a pilot of holistic, integrated ministry, the Compassion, Rehabilitation and Development Centre. It will be launching its Marriage, Sex and Family Project at its pan Kenyan conference next April (DV) entitled Going for Gold, Going for God: Redeeming and Restoring Human Sexuality. The Project's manager has more: Principal Martin Olando, Bishop Hannington Institute of Theology and Development: molandozz@yahoo.com For a taster of the content (with Principal Martin, Bishop Joseph, social worker Peter Mulinge and me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lD67pARy5Q&feature=youtu.be

Finally, our Good Guys are really struggling financially, and make very little go very far! Their schools, polytechnics, youth centres, Self-Help economic empowerment groups and small businesses, are hugely impressive. Contact Principal Martin above if you feel you or your church could help even a bit!

I finish with an inspiring quote from the amazing Helen Keller: 'I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.'

With Joshua Olando; Bishop Joseph; lecturing, 'Show & Tell' demonstrations of traditional and 'progressive' family forms, with Principal Martin; ACK St Paul's Academy classrooms; catering, basket-making and animal husbandry micro-enterprise; 'Green Neighbours', Athi River Youth Centre doing a brilliant job!

Dr Lisa Nolland is a lay minister and blogger for Anglican Mainstream