You don't have to be queer to deserve death under Uganda's proposed homophobic hate law. If you are a straight Ugandan citizen convicted more than once of failing to rat out your gay friends, you too can be executed by the state for "aggravated homosexuality," because those two strikes make you a "serial offender."
wakingupnow points this out, and offers more analysis. The language of the bill itself is worth reading, and references the evil influence of "uncensored information technologies" as a corrupting factor.
THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL 2009 (PDF link).
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I think it was on Rachael Maddow the other day about this organization called “the family” that hosted/hosts the national prayer breakfast
1. Supports this bill completely
2. Seems to have a non profit retreat called the C street house where senators and congressmen have affairs (3 on record)
3. and James Inhofe may have been present when the bill was introduced
http://rawstory.com/2009/2009/12/maddow-show-senator-inhofe-present-ugandan-kill-gays-bill-introduced/
Christian love at work.
Damn heteros always trying to horn in on gay culture. First metrosexuality, now this.
The Ugandans have been reading their history. Hitler made certain that homosexuals were the first ones with a train ticket. Ah, for the halcyon days of Idi Amin. He just didn’t care if a Lango was gay or not.
See, this is why we need gays in the military. If we’d had them for the past 30 years, we’d have enough ex-military gays to form a paramilitary, and then after they pass this bill and start arresting gays (but before they execute any) we could bomb their fucking country into the stone age and resettle it as the Homosexual Republic of Uganda.
Seriously, fuck those people. If they pass that law we should harass our congresscritters to cut off ALL AID to Uganda until they change it.
Eat shit and die, Uganda.
The trouble with bombing Uganda is that we would be bombing the gay Ugandans as well. It doesn’t effectively address the whole not-killing-gay-Ugandans issue.
What a strange time we live in. We really do live in the time of the great cleansing predicted by native americans. Everything is on the table now. We can choose a new age of light and reason or we can descend into chaos and terror at any moment. The choice is ours.
Let all the poisons that live in the mud bubble up.
Yeah, there’s that. OK, then, Special Forces guys can assassinate all the politicians who vote for this, and any cop who participates in arresting someone under this law. Just keep killing them until the population of Uganda is significantly reduced.
Right now I honestly would have no problem with taking out Uganda entirely and installing a puppet government. Iran too. I say kill them all: everyone who votes to execute people for being gay, every member of an Iranian Islamic Court, all the top guys in both governments (and the Iranian Ayatollahs).
I will probably not feel this way forever. But right now I want them all dead, and I would love to tear their throats out with my own teeth.
Easy there Xopher!! Uganda has 30 million people living there and the majority of the people are beautiful, kind, loving and definitely not on the warpath to kill any homosexuals!! With 50 % of the country their only type of communication is word of mouth, no phones, computers, magazines, newspapers, radios etc…. so many have no idea what is even happening!! The American media is making this worse by showing the extremists on one side of the issue. I just spent 2 weeks in Uganda and did not see one anti gay message, rally, sign, linching etc…….
I definitely don’t condone the laws being discussed but before you go ripping people apart with your own teeth, do a little research, understand their culture and then maybe you will see that the only thing that will improve things there is education.
God Bless –
I will cast a spell and steal their penis if they pass this law.
Help, I think my cable modem is turning gay from teh internets!
I just read the Proposition via the link. I did not find any mention of the death penalty. All i saw was 2 mentions of life imprisonment in the event of aggravated homosexuality or in the event of Gay marriage. I would use the word absurd if so many human lives weren’t directly involved, leaving me only with the words tragic and horrifying. Just wondering where the death penalty discussion came from?
Part II, Item 3, Point (2): “A person who commits the offence of aggravated homosexuality shall be liable on conviction to suffer death.”
It’s not QUITE as bad as made out, because the death penalty only seems to apply to aggravated homosexuality, that is doing it with a disabled person, a person under 18, or while infected with HIV, or by force, or in some other circumstances too.
But still, life imprisonment for the ordinary kind of ‘committing homosexuality’ is quite bad enough.
Further to a post above, one reason why we need gays in the military (and the police) is so that this kind of law cannot be enforced.
Matthew, you are incorrect. Please read the linked article. Aggravated homosexuality also applies to “serial offenders,” meaning people who have been convicted more than once of homosexuality or related offences. The bill has an entired section listing related offences, and one of them is failure to disclose knowledge of homosexual activity.
This is a Sad sad thing. to take the lives of people just because of their sexual preference. When my friend posted this as his FB status i wished it was a lie but alas it is not. allowing this to take place in uganda can only lead to more devisation. as for the imprisonment or killing of people with aids. there are many heterosexual people that have aids. My friend has aids and he has never been with a man. We cant allow this to happen. however stoping aid to them wouldnt make things better at all. then you are stopping children and others who need aid from recivening it. at that point it goes beyong the homosexual issues… this is a human isses and its just not right.its a sad day when something like this is even considered