ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the hybrid role the Catholic Church in Cameroon plays in the debate about homosexuality, its origin and causes. It concerns the rhetorical disturbance that queerness presents to a vision of a new Christian social ethos in Cameroon and beyond. The chapter concerns the kinds of disturbances the production and consumption of the idea of homosexuality inject in a project of a renewed Christian ethics in this country and beyond. A new vision of Christian ethics frees the church from self-denial. The chapter concerns with Catholic theologian Emmanuel Katongole's genuflexion to a transcendental order of claims, that is claims about Jesus as Savior, and more with possible articulations of the socio-political implications of the idea that salvation is not only spiritual. It connects the dots between Katongole's general premise of a new Christian ethics and the simple stories that Cameroonians tell themselves when the uncanny queer fragility take centre-stage.
