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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch: Lawmakers Cheer As Ugandan President Declares War on Homosexuals
Apparently the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, wasn't coming around to our side when he admonished his Parliament last year for passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill without the required quorum and inferred that he would not sign it, reports David Badash in The New Civil Rights Movement. At his national party retreat last week Museveni told lawmakers that he will sign the bill, adding, We shall have a war with the homosexual lobby, in the world, backed by these people and you.
Captured on video, that line caught the crowd's attention as they all stood to applaud and cheer Museveni's declaration of war, which TV personality Piers Morgan has aptly dubbed gay apartheid.
According to Badash, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill "mandates jail sentences including life in prison for those accused of having sex with members of their own gender, and for those who know LGBT people but do not report them to authorities. Jail is also mandated for those who support LGBT civil rights and the LGBT community."
http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/02/17/watch-lawmakers-cheer-ugandan-president-declares-war-homosexuals
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)But then their would show up and ask me why I hate their Religion (as if it's not obvious to begin with).
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I foresee a similar schisms for other denominations as well.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)In the us a few parishes left to form a new Anglican Church but it is not recognized by the Church of England so it is not in the communion.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)pretty embarrassing.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)... for certain religious leaders to denounce anti-LGBT laws in places like Nigeria and Uganda when they are so busy lobbying for discriminatory laws elsewhere around the world, including here?
William769
(55,148 posts)Which makes it even worse.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)But if folks realized the scope of the anti-gay, anti-woman lobbying going on under the code phrase "religious liberty", they'd realize why their religious leaders haven't spoken out. They are willing to sacrifice the lives of LGBTs in countries like Uganda, Nigeria and Cameroon in order not to undermine their ongoing battle against LGBTs in the U.S. and elsewhere.
William769
(55,148 posts)TheMathieu
(456 posts)Things are about to get real worse for LGBT citizens across the world before they get better.
DURHAM D
(32,617 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Get pissed off and find some easily targeted punching bag to blame (glbt, immigrants, the poor, some ethnic/religious minority, intellectuals, neighboring country, taxes, workers' rights, feminists) for why things are so shitty in your nation, and soon enough the general public stops searching for the *real* reason why things are so shitty in their nation..
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)those Churches have not objected and continue to send tons of money and call hate mongers 'Princes' and 'Pastors' and that sort of rot. Same goes for the smaller Protestant communities, but no one around here promotes those leaders as they do the others.
William769
(55,148 posts)Don't hold your breath though waiting for a message from the Pope, this atrocity just won't make the cut.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)laced attacks on LGBT people and their families in Argentina.
William769
(55,148 posts)Has spent centuries perpetrating a fraud against civilization.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)... to visit Uganda in October to celebrate with the government the canonization of Ugandan martyrs... and no, not the murdered LGBT activist David Kato nor the GLBTs being arrested, tortured and killed.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/651627--the-pope-is-coming.html
William769
(55,148 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Back the anti-gay bill and invite the Pope for a visit.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Church-invites-Pope-to-Uganda--denounces-gays/-/688334/2124848/-/lffn23/-/index.html
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)While supposedly civilized governments shrug it off. Insane.
William769
(55,148 posts)Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)Not to mention embargo, seizure of assets, and withdrawal of diplomatic recognition? No doubt we'll say "tut, tut" and "naughty, naughty" while they conduct their "war."
William769
(55,148 posts)Seems to be a common theme.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024515807
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024515768
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)There are many dysfunctional one's to choose from.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)The Jesus Plus Nothing guys who put together the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. Very dysfunctional indeed, unless you are one of them then, it's very functional and successful.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-12-2009/jeff-sharlet
Or a better article here: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34783946/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/t/uganda-be-kidding-me/#.UwN1YYVZjpg
sakabatou
(42,189 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,185 posts)Bury them in "reports" of every politician, clergyman, right-wing idiot, autocrat, hypocrite... in the country.
When they're afraid for their own safety maybe they'll pay a bit more attention to what they're doing.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Criminalising being gay is appalling, but at least there's hope it will change.
But a law which makes trying to change it a criminal offence in its own right is locked in, and leaves little room for hope.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)If not, I'd like to know why the hell not.
sheshe2
(83,986 posts)http://nypost.com/2014/02/17/obama-condemns-ugandas-anti-gay-law/
William769
(55,148 posts)Punishment ranges from fines to death just for loving someone of the same sex.
Grant you we don't have all the rights afforded to Heterosexuals here in America, but we don't even come close to some of these barbaric Countries.
Yes President Obama has spoken out on Uganda and I hope he even goes further with his actions.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)So I guess you just want us to bomb Uganda then huh? MIC tools.
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joeybee12
(56,177 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)might love it in Uganda.