Uganda’s anti-gay politicos are upping the hateful ante ahead of this month’s CHOGM summit. A number of head parliamentarians are urging the government to use the biennial meeting of Commonwealth Nations to crack down on Uganda’s gays. Said MP Ishaa Otto during a press conference Monday:
CHOGM is an opportunity for the government to send a clear message that gays are not welcome in Uganda. It’s unfortunate that the government is silent as if there is nothing happening. The society must rise up against homosexuality before it’s too late
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The government should urgently table a new bill that criminalizes homosexuality with punitive amendments that guarantee arrests to prevent the spread of gay practices.
Otto isn’t alone on this one. MP Ssebuliba Mutumba warned that leniency for the lavender set will lead to a “morally corrupt society”. Too late.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Thank God that a map of Africa includes more than the Northern Muslim states and the Muslim/Christian mix of subsaharan Africa.
When I think that the continent also includes the Union of South Africa, redeemed to the point that it has Anglican archbishops like +Desmond Tutu rather than Akinola, and is the fifth nation on earth to provide MARRIAGE EQUALITY.
What can one say? Well, this. In Africa, the oasis of LGBT freedom is South Africa. In North America, the oasis is Canada. Europe needs and gets the two others.
SteveMD2
This is an awful gross comment, but hard to avoid saying – why should we help them – these bigots. Just help their gays go to a more accepting place, and leave the morally decrepit bigots to rot on their own.