Why is Uganda Attacking Homosexuality?
December 9, 2009 by Gay Agenda News Team
As a gay man in Uganda, Frank Mugisha is used to the taunts, the slurs and the daily harassment of neighbors and friends.
But if a new bill proposed in the east African country becomes law, Mugisha could be put away for life, or worse, put to death for having sex with another man.
“Right now, you can’t go to places that are crowded, because the mob can attack us or even burn us. We can’t walk alone. We are ostracized by relatives. But if this bill passes, it will become impossible for me to live here at all. And that part hurts the most,” Mugisha said.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill features several provisions that human rights groups say would spur a witch hunt of homosexuals in the country:
• Gays and lesbians convicted of having gay sex would be sentenced, at minimum, to life in prison
• People who test positive for HIV may be executed
• Homosexuals who have sex with a minor, or engage in homosexual sex more than once, may also receive the death penalty
• The bill forbids the “promotion of homosexuality,” which in effect bans organizations working in HIV and AIDS prevention
• Anyone who knows of homosexual activity taking place but does not report it would risk up to three years in prison
Is this Uganda’s Christmas Gift from the Religious Right of the U.S.A.?
These people have been convinced by the far right religious radicals from America that homosexuality is what is causing so much of the ills of their society. However, with the median age of 15, being one of the poorest nations in the world, Infant mortality rate was at 79 per 1,000 in 2005, Life expectancy was at 50.2 for females, and 49.1 for males in 2005.[33] There were 8 physicians per 100,000 persons in the early 2000s, extreme rates of illiteracy, 1.5 million displaced persons by internal war, child slavery in militias, this has got to be one of the most backward people on the planet as concerns human rights. The general heterosexual populace is rabidly anti-gay and religious accounting for their extreme homophobia.