With the stroke of his pen, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda defied science and world opinion to make lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people outlaws in his country.
“Homosexuals are actually mercenaries,” he said. “They are heterosexual people, but because of money they say they are homosexuals. These are prostitutes because of money.” Museveni added, “There’s now an attempt at social imperialism, to impose social values. We’re sorry to see that you (the West) live the way you live, but we keep quiet about it.” The “anti-homosexuality” law carries a penalty of 14 years for a first-time offense and life imprisonment for those convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.”
The world isn’t keeping quiet about the latest travesty against LGBT people in Africa. Denmark and Norway announced they were delaying or diverting aid. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States was reviewing its relationship with the central African country, including $400 million in aid.
“This is a tragic day for Uganda and for all who care about the cause of human rights,” Kerry said in a statement. Museveni’s signature on the law and the motivation behind it show he doesn’t care at all.
Being thrown into prison for daring to love.
It does not get much more oppressive than that.
By the way if you are unaware as to the source of this hatred, then look no further.
I know gay people from Uganda here in London. They do report things gettting worse and although once only here to study, they are now seeking asylum. America's evangelical missionaries are partly to blame for this change, but it's only part of what underlies Uganda's relationship to its LGBT people. Don't oversimplify.
ReplyDeleteReligion preys on ignorant minds.
ReplyDeleteThere are many Dominionists in the USA who are partly responsible for this travesty.
ReplyDeleteSome are in the Congress, and are part of the "Family", which counted among it's members, the supreme hypocrite John Ensign Senator of Nevada who had his family pay off his mistress to keep her mouth shut.
http://www.alternet.org/story/141278/rachel_maddow%3A_gop_sex_scandal_exposes_secretive_conservative_religious__group_--__'the_family'
This is the band of savages who fuck other women, call themselves Christians, but want to meddle with the laws in other countries.
If they are so pro-life, as good ole 'Murican evangelicals, how can they approve putting an LBGT person to death?
The depth of their hypocrisy can only be guessed at because they try to keep everything secret about their funding, their nefarious deeds, and their Jeebus frat house on C street
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/13/100913fa_fact_boyer
"We do believe that God wants the righteous to rule"... this is their true motive, power.
ReplyDeleteChristians are no more upright than anyone else, however they do seem to have cornered the market on being a total f'ing wackadoo. I normally am against over-medicating, but in this case I don't think there is enough meds in the world to cure this people.
This is exactly what I detest about organized religion, my belief elevates me above others and makes me think that I am better than the rest of the sub-humans surrounding me. It is easy to hurt others when you don't see them as equal
Now a tabloid is publishing a list of the 'top 200' gays in Uganda1 including some who weren't previously out.
ReplyDeletehttp://bigstory.ap.org/article/uganda-tabloid-prints-list-top-homosexuals
I heard on the news we give Uganda 4 million/year in aid....I hope the hell that stops. This entire story is obscene and our media should shed light on these disgusting American politicians. What year is this? We are going backwards.
ReplyDeleteAnd seemingly at an accelerating rate...........
DeleteI believe that is at least 469 million a year. Let's hope that the President can stop that payment with a stroke of the executive pen
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I'd feel terrible about legitimate aid going to honest, powerless people that need help to punish their hideous bigots.
DeleteThis is just barbaric!
ReplyDeleteWhy is this so difficult to understand:
ReplyDeleteIf anyone can be oppressed,
then anyone can be oppressed.
Uganda newspaper names 200 ‘homos’ after anti-LGBT law signed
ReplyDeleteA Ugandan newspaper listed Tuesday 200 people it accused of being gay, a day after the president called homosexuals 'mercenaries' and signing one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws.
"Exposed!" the headline of the Red Pepper tabloid read, beneath photographs of Ugandans it said were gay, as well as reporting on lurid stories of alleged homosexual actions.
"Uganda's 200 top homos named," the daily newspaper added.
In 2011, prominent Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato was bludgeoned to death at his home after a different newspaper splashed photos, names and addresses of gays in Uganda on its front page along with a yellow banner reading "Hang Them".
On Monday, President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill into law which holds that repeat homosexuals should be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and requires people to denounce gays.
Museveni said he could not understand how one could "fail to be attracted to all these beautiful women and be attracted to a man" instead and described in graphic details his particular revulsion to oral sex.
The signing of the law came despite fierce criticism from Western nations and key donors, including US President Barack Obama, who has warned that ties between Kampala and Washington would be damaged.
The bill will provide a stiff test for foreign donors, with Museveni warning Western nations not to meddle in the central African nation's affairs, and that he was not afraid of aid being cut.
Last year the Red Pepper published photographs of retired gay British man Bernard Randall, taken from his stolen laptop.
Randall, who was then arrested on charges "trafficking obscene publications", was deported last month.
Prominent Ugandan gay activist Jacqueline Kasha posted photographs of the newspaper's front page on Twitter, warning that the "media witch hunt is back".
Homophobia is widespread in Uganda, where American-style evangelical Christianity is on the rise.
Gay men and women in the country face frequent harassment and threats of violence, and rights activists have reported cases of lesbians being subjected to "corrective" rapes.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/25/uganda-newspaper-names-200-homos-after-anti-lgbt-law-signed/
Isn't that one of $arah's buddies? I remember when Rachel Maddow interviewed the person that introduced the bill. He was truly frightening.
ReplyDeleteGay deniers, the new apartheid.
ReplyDeleteAnderson Cooper destroys Arizona Republican supporting anti-LGBT law
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/24/anderson-cooper-destroys-arizona-republican-supporting-anti-lgbt-law/
Reading the comments and watching the video gave me chills. I just can't believe that they are so misguided to prosecute consulting adults for doing what they want in privacy. And Christians agreeing to this travesty is unbelievable. Their fake god would be appalled.
ReplyDeleteYour move, Arizona....
ReplyDeleteGood to see countries hitting them where it hurts. I feel for the poor people, it's not their fault their leaders are righteously syphyllitically insane.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm sure the Churches will rush in and fill the void in aid money to help the poor people. They always do, right?
God made homosexuals in his image, those hate filled people are the abominations.