ABSTRACT
Enoch Adejare Adeboye is the most popular evangelical pastor in Nigeria, and perhaps in Africa. He is the head of the largest Pentecostal franchise on the continent, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). The RCCG is actively pro-neoliberal economic practices and pro-rich, its moral perspective, specifically in respect of the management of the body and human sexuality, is deeply conservative, unabashedly anti-homosexual. Treating homosexuals with love is the way the RCCG hopes to contend with the unintended consequences of its discourse on sexual minorities. Although human bodies are sexual bodies, their ultimate importance and function is in being sacred vessels instrumentalised in carrying out the divine will of procreation. The culture and morality of a people must be taken into cognizance because it is important to remember that culture and morality are intricately linked. The support for the anti-gay law by the Pentecostal community is not simply a matter of morality or culture or Christianity.
