This week we’re going to discuss another how-can-this-shit-exist-in-this-day-and-age item: Uganda’s proposed anti-homosexual bill. Ugandan Member of Parliament, David Bahati, proposed the bill, which he hopes will exterminate homosexuality from his country. Just how does Bahati propose to exterminate homosexuality? By exterminating the homosexuals, naturally.
The supposed object of the bill, according to its barbaric author, is to, “protect the cherished culture of the people of Uganda. legal, religious, and traditional family values of the people of Uganda against the attempts of sexual rights activists seeking to impose their values of sexual promiscuity on the people of Uganda.”
If you’d care to read the entire bill, you can do that here, otherwise I’ll shortcut it for you. The bottom line of this bill is that “A person who commits the offence of aggravated homosexuality shall be liable on conviction to suffer death.”
You got that right: death.
There is also a clause for those who “attempt to commit homosexuality,” which carries an imprisonment seven years, and a clause for any “person who attempts to commit the offence of aggravated homosexuality” which is subject to imprisonment for life.
One of the most frightening aspects of this proposed bill is that it would turn the whole culture of Uganda into a fear zone by including provisions into the bill for anyone “aiding and abating homosexuality,” a crime for which the guilty party is liable to imprisonment for seven years, and a hauntingly-Orwellian “Failure to disclose the offence,” clause which mandates, “A person in authority, who being aware of the commission of any offence under this Act, omits to report the offence to the relevant authorities within twenty-four hours of having first had that knowledge, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty currency points or imprisonment not exceeding three years.”
The proposed law goes on to say that “A person who purports to contract a marriage with another person of the same sex commits the offence of homosexuality and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for life.”
A horrific final provision makes it impossible for the gay Ugandan to just get the hell out of the madness; there is an “Extra- Territorial Jurisdiction” which applies to homosexual acts by Ugandans, be they committed in or out of the country, along with an extradition addendum, which would allow LGBT Ugandans to be returned to Uganda under extradition law, be tried and jailed or executed under Ugandan law.
And I thought Ken Mehlman was a jagoff.
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You got me– me and all the other gays. We’re nothing more than “sexual rights activists seeking to impose their values of sexual promiscuity on the people of Uganda.”
What will these people think of next?
Hey Uganda, even if you kill all the gays you’ll still have problems; you’ll still be the same bunch of bigoted hate mongers and gays or no gays, that ain’t going away anytime soon. Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.
This is just insanity.
The bill states, “A person who purports to contract a marriage with another person of the same sex commits the offence of homosexuality and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for life.” So does that mean if a person were to officiate the marriage of a gay couple they’d be liable as well?
Guilty as charged, I’m attempting to commit homosexuality.
Nick, I take it a step further; I’ve actually committed homosexuality.
What the hell is a “currency point”? That’s what I want to know.
I’m a homosexual, and I’m aggravated. Does that mean I’m committing the offense of aggravated homosexuality?
No, Lloyd, your just committing hte offense of aggravated homosexual. Different crime