Kill the Gays - Uganda

[Katzndogz]

I don't agree with it personally but what can we do?

The gay agenda just lost India. They have recriminalized homosexuality. What's happening here is reflecting in other countries as those countries fight to keep what's happening here from happening there.

What is happening here?

Punishing people who refuse to participate in gay events like weddings. Laws that force women to have to accept men in their restrooms and dressing rooms. Having boys in school strip down the little girls. The people of Uganda might just want to protect the business people who don't want to be forced to accept the gay lifestyle. They have a right to construct whatever society they want to construct. American activists may want to remove self determination from every other country on earth, it just looks like they won't get to.

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

The gay agenda just lost India. They have recriminalized homosexuality. What's happening here is reflecting in other countries as those countries fight to keep what's happening here from happening there.

What is happening here?

Punishing people who refuse to participate in gay events like weddings. Laws that force women to have to accept men in their restrooms and dressing rooms. Having boys in school strip down the little girls. The people of Uganda might just want to protect the business people who don't want to be forced to accept the gay lifestyle. They have a right to construct whatever society they want to construct. American activists may want to remove self determination from every other country on earth, it just looks like they won't get to.

You were forced to attend a gay wedding?




Did you kiss the groom?

 

[rcfieldz]

Uganda needs to be careful. Sounds to me like a new dictatorship has arisen.

 

[Political Junky]

Watch: Scott Lively preached hate in Uganda just before anti-gay law proposed · PinkNews.co.uk

 

[ScienceRocks]

Religious fundimudlism sucks!

 

[Sunni Man]

Being anti-homo isn't hate.

Many cultures and countries want to preserve their morals and values.

So it's within their right to make laws criminalizing sodomy. ..

 

[WinterBorn]

(IPS) Five Nations Execute Homosexuals, Two More Considering It

"Currently, the nations that prescribe capital punishment for homosexuals are Iran, Mauritania, the Republic of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

South Sudan, the world's newest country, may become a sixth nation to do so, while, if religious extremists have their way, Uganda may become the seventh.

The death penalty also is carried out against homosexuals in certain parts of Somalia and Nigeria.

Many of the countries that carry out the death penalty against homosexuals also have anti-democratic regimes, noted C. Dixon Osburn, director of the Law and Security Programme at Human Rights First.

"When other freedoms are opposed, any freedoms can be oppressed."

When you're doing or proposing something even Iraq and North Korea wouldn't, just how batshit crazy have you become?

"When you're doing or proposing something even Iraq and North Korea wouldn't, just how batshit crazy have you become?"

Best line of the week!

 

[TheIceMan]

Now then...

They have gone and done it. The journalists of the world have, in a gross and deceptive conspiracy, decided to mis-characterize Uganda's new Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 as a law that punishes people for "being gay." (The law was previously referred to commonly as the "Kill the Gays" law, but a limited provision for capital punishment was removed before passage). Now, punishments can range from several years in the slammer (rather an ironic punishment, that) up to life imprisonment, but such sentences are reserved for actors who are HIV-positive, parents or authority figures, people assaulting minors, and so forth.

The promulgation of this obvious falsehood is designed to promote animosity and ill-feelings toward Uganda, whose current law is - like it or not - pretty much similar to other sub-Saharan countries and other Islamic countries with respect to acts of homosexual sodomy. In short, it's seriously against the law. You'll go to jail if caught engaging in the common forms of homosexual intercourse. Kinda like it was here in the U.S. a few generations ago.

But of course there is no penalty for "being gay," which is an entirely personal and private matter. Indeed, even under the current, harsher law, it would be possible for one to go through an entire life lusting after every man in the country (i.e., being gay), as long as you don't have anal or oral intercourse with them.

It is also possible to be a pedophile without punishment, as long as you don't act on your inclinations. And it is possible to lust after married women (or men), too, with nothing to fear from the Ugandan government. Or to really, really, really want to kill some one. As long as you don't act on it.

To equate "being gay" with committing acts of homosexual sodomy is a false equivalence indeed.

From Wikipedia: "According to human rights organisations, at least 500,000 gay people live in Uganda out of a total population of 31 million, though the government of Uganda contests that number as inflated." By my calculator, that's about 1.6% of the population - about the same as in the U.S., although one would never know it from the hubbub about such issues.

The Ugandan law even provides that if you leave the country and bugger someone elsewhere, you can be drug back to Uganda and prosecuted. These people are serious.

So if you are in the unfortunate position of being gay in Uganda, you can (a) remain celibate, (b) convert, (c) absquatulate - and renounce your citizenship, or (d) choose your friends very carefully and do your business in private. Just like in almost every other Islamic country.

One wonders if this little experiment will reinforce the premise that punishment is a deterrent to crime. I wonder how many people are actually prosecuted under these laws.

It's none of our business.