Yesterday I wrote about Uganda’s proposed anti-homosexuality bill which promises death to those who engage in “aggravated homosexuality,” whatever in the hell that is. I admit it; I have my off days. Sometimes I am a downright bitchy queen on a rampage. Does that constitute “aggravated homosexuality”? I think I’ll leave Uganda out of my travel plans before I hear, “off with her head!” shouted in my direction.
All kidding aside, this is some serious business. There’s no coincidence that I’ve chosen to use the word “business” either; it seems like the Ugandan bill is being supported by American business: the business of big, conservative American churches.
According to the New York Times, Last March, three American evangelical “Christians,” whose supposedly specialize in “curing” homosexuals, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.
For three days, The New York Times writes, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”
Then, writes the Times, just one month after the conference, David Bahati, who we mentioned yesterday, a previously unknown Ugandan politician, who boasts of having evangelical friends in the American government, introduced his Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Coincidence? We think not.
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I am proposing a bill that David Bahati be executed on the charge of aggravated idiocy.
LOL Ricky! I’m with you.
What’s most disconcerting to me is how the Ugandan people have had foreign religion thrust upon them, and that they’ve taken the foreigner’s views as their own and run with them. I wish, for their own sake, that they could just have their own beliefs back. This hybrid of Western and African dogma sure isn’t a good thing.
What exactly constitutes an “experts on homosexuality”? What are these people’s credentials? I’ve sucked enough cock to qualify, I’m sure.
Jailing or killing an adult for adult activities is wrong.
This guy is out of his mind. Problem is, people are listening to him.
This bastard is insane, and he’s giving other misguided Africans a target to vent their anger on. The gays are not the problem in Uganda; it’s people like Bahati.
This is homophobic, and should be condemned worldwide.
I hate to do it, but I have to go there: Fuck you, Uganda.
Burn in hell, Uganda. Burn in hell.
Wow. Inconceivable.
You mentioned the three American evangelical “Christians,” whose supposedly specialize in “curing” homosexuals, that went to Uganda to give a series of talks. There is a frightening, rapidly-growing new religious movement that those evangelicals are part of; it’s known as “New Apostolic Reformation.” Watch out for them; they are the source of radical movements such as these.
Thanks for the heads up, Victor. I’ll check them out.
I really do hope that the US State Department puts Bahati on the list denied entry into the USA. The EU and any other civilized country or league of nations would be wise to do the same. Any self-proclaimed genocide orchestrator such as Bahati and his cohorts is a massive threat to life and liberty of more than simply the gay community.
I do believe that it is inappropriate to have any kind of sexual contact with those who are underage. I don’t advocate the death penalty of course, but that type of activity should be monitored and penalized.
Arnold, your comment is so out there I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Arnold, you ignorant slut.
Just because the “evangelical Christians” preached about “how gay men often sodomized teenage boys,” does not mean it’s true! That is not the agenda of every member of the gay community. Hell, I didn’t even sodomize teenage boys when I was one. Stop drawing conclusions.
What a choice: kill me, force me to spend my life in prison, or “allow” me to live my life in hiding in Uganda.
Call me dramatic, I’d rather the bastards kill me than make me live in hiding there!
Bro, you’re dramatic.
Another disgusting, bigoted, homophobic third-world country I won’t visit.
Bahati claims he’s not really anti-gay, he’s just pro-family. Bollocks. His bill has a “serial offenders” clause which effectively renders the sexually active gay person a target for for the death penalty.
Does the name Idi Amin ring any bells? Anyone here remember Idi Amin and his genocide? These are a zealous, blood-thirsty people.
Idi Amin killed an estimated half a million people when he was in power. The population in Uganda is 31,656,865. If estimates are correct; that gays represent 10% of the total population, worldwide, then that means 3.16 million gays and lesbians are potentially effected by this bill. In other words, 500K dead would be a drop in the bucket to what Bahati is proposing.
Go fuck yourself, Bahati. Surely none of us will…
Don’t forget that all of this madness began when three Americans (the evangelicals) visited Uganda, not the other way around.
Tragic. Why doensn’t the UN step in?
Clif, the three Americans you mention, Don Schmierer, Scott Lively and Caleb Lee Brundidge, endorsed Uganda’s already-existing criminal code which bans homosexual acts with a lifetime sentence, and forces gays and lesbians into mandatory therapy. As right-leaning as Schmierer, Lively and Brundidge are — and they are as far-right-leaning as any I’ve ever witnessed — they were only fueling the Ugandan hatred and fire.
There’s no question that this is exactly what NOM, American Family Association,
Christian Communication Network, Courage/Encourage, Family Research Institute, Focus on the Family and all the other groups like them would be trying to implement in the US if they thought they had half a chance.