Uganda's Ethics Minister James Nsaba Buturo, who publicly supports the country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, just made the audacious claim that Gay Uganda, the live-from-Uganda blog we've been covering for some time, was among three recipients of some $20 million (million!) provided by some unnamed foreign entity. This would be laughable, were the ridiculous assertion not being made by a top government official.
Already lacking credibility among rational people, Buturo — who falsely claimed lawmakers would drop the death penalty — has upped his fanciful reputation with the completely false declaration.
If Gay Uganda — one of "three civil society organisations allegedly promoting homosexuality activities in Uganda," reports Uganda's Daily Monitor, including Sexual Minorities Uganda and Integrity Uganda — is on the receiving end of USD$20M, why is the blog running on Google's Blogspot using such an amateur theme? Where's the marketing and promotion?
As the blog's anonymous author points out: "I, gayuganda, I am a single human being. Sorry, but my English fails me. This is not a group, or a family, or a cabal or whatever. This is one human being, a Ugandan, living, working in Uganda, who happens to be gay. I am certainly not a Civil Society Organisation. IS THAT CLEAR? … Secondly, huh, 20 Million USD? I would really love to get at least a tenth of that. Ok, I will not be greedy, I will settle for much, much less. Christmas is here, and the bills are not completely paid. My lover wants more than I can give him, the usual problems of life. If I had just a fraction of that, I would be really, really happy."
And naturally, any of the "several hundred" Kill The Gays bill protesters who demonstrated in the capital Kampala on Tuesday are also being provided with foreign funds, eh?
Buturo knows he's lying, but that doesn't matter. His statement is another way of saying opposition to the bill is a foreign, a Western construct, while reminding native Ugandans that true patriots support further criminalizing homosexuality.
He's framing the debate as "us versus them." And frightfully, it's working out.
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Does this disgusting subhuman filthy savage have any problem
with the United States sending over ONE HALF BILLION DOLLARS
PER YEAR of our tax dollars to support this cesspool of a
"nation"??
Ok, lets just pretend that his statement is true…..does that also mean that the Catholic Churches in Uganda AREN'T receiving money from outside the country to promote THEIR agenda?
The fact is, Uganda has SUCH a massive inferiority complex that the best way to try to attack somebody is to say that they are somehow connected to anything outside Uganda. Pathetic. Until they stop taking Western Money they can pretend all they want, but they are still just a colony that can't support itself.
I get it. An oblique sentence or two in Leviticus can be the basis for a death penalty law, but I guess we just give Buturo a pass on that whole "Thou shall not bear false witness" ten commandments thing.
What an execrable human being.
It becomes clearer with each passing day that Uganda, indeed the WORLD, needs an Anti-Heterosexuality Bill of 2010.
Any sponsors?
They throw spears and build mud huts. They've barely evolved above a hunter and gatherer society. And you expect these savages to understand the complexities of human sexuality? They think rape can cure a woman of lesbianism!
Which part of "thou shalt not lie" does this guy fail to understand?
@ Cam
They stopped being colony's at least by the the 70's in Africa when the UK, France et al, gave them 'liberation' (with a clause)..
It's not that long but since governments in the world think in such a short term sense, maybe those bastards should be able to construct their country in….40 years or so….like the US was able to..
Twenty million dollars? Too bad GU is not in Nigeria; that would have been one bank account I wouldn't mind hosting.
Can't we just get rid of Uganda and build some retirement condos?