How I love the holiday season! Despite the garish display of conspicuous consumption here in the USA, there are invariably numerous examples of people reaching out to help those less fortunate than themselves. Revives my faith in humanity.
So it was with great joy that I read a story in this morning's The Oregonian. Seems that Uganda is considering a very harsh anti-gay ordinance, one that would go beyond merely declaring homosexuality a crime, which it already is.
Even more interesting is the morsel that a former Oregonian, Scott Lively, had a hand in this legislative debacle. Lively addressed the Uganda parliament last March:
And remember that homosexuality is literally illegal in this country [Uganda]. Imagine how bad things would be if the criminal law were abandoned. By the way, the false accusation against me, now circulating in the US, is that I called on the Ugandan government to force homosexuals into therapy. What I actually said is that the law against homosexuality should be liberalized to give arrestees the choice of therapy instead of imprisonment, similar to the therapy option I chose after being arrested for drunk driving in 1985 (during which time I accepted the Lord and was healed and transformed into a Christian activist).
Sure love those Christians!
Here are the bill's major provisions:
- Anyone convicted of a homosexual act faces life imprisonment
- Active homosexual living with HIV and same-sex rapists would be executed
- Anyone who "aids, abets, counsels, or procures another to engage in acts of homosexuality" faces seven years in prison if convicted.
- Landlords who rent rooms or homes to homosexuals face seven years in prison
- Anyone with 'religious, political, economic or social authority" who fails to report anyone violating the act faces three years.
Here's a detailed AP story from the Fall River (MA) Herald News
Glad Uganda has its priorities straight. Having homosexuals running around the country is far worse than beating your wife or hacking your neighbor to death with a machete.
"Men will love each other as long as one is richer than the other." --- Ugandan proverb
I agree about this antigay ordinance; I am a woman I have bad experience with my ex who is gay
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Posted by: lourdes | Tuesday, 06 March 2012 at 09:51 AM