Either the law will deal with the gay people there or the people will. Biden's better off giving gay people asylum and bringing/sending them over to places that will accept their gay shyt.
List of Ugandan homosexual offenses and their punishments. Edit- Updated with example of aggravated homosexuality. Pure Haram :dame:
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Either the law will deal with the gay people there or the people will. Biden's better off giving gay people asylum and bringing/sending them over to places that will accept their gay shyt.
Knew this was going to be the next move. US is going to accept LGBT asylum seekers but hold the line on anyone else.
Detroit Wave
Veteran
Negged for implying greek cacs aint invent fakkitry
White beliefs? Like how the right and left are on the same page finally and uganda is in another stratosphere
White imposed beliefs
If thats the case, why does your post read like a white girl on Twitter wrote it
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Superstar
$1 billion shillings just sounds like some fake Monopoly moneyNow this a list that Corey Holcomb can agree on......
Curious what the penalty is for males raping females, giving them HIV etc? Do they got the same energy for that
LiveFromLondon
Superstar
Lil nikks can get it toSentencing a child to prison?
are you fukking serious right now?
still cookin off "aggravated" homosexuality
Lmao 3 years for a gay child
If you're too right wing for Ted Cruz you're fukking missing the point
I keep saying this. Anti-gay laws in Africa are the RESULT of colonialism:
www.economist.com
Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill is now law
It is part of a culture war in Africa that has ties to the West
Jun 1st 2023
A gay Ugandan man holds a pride sign as he poses for a photograph in Uganda Saturday, March 25, 2023. A prominent leader of Uganda's LGBTQ community on Thursday described anguished calls by others like him who are concerned for their safety after the passing of a harsh new anti-gay bill. (AP Photo)
Homosexuality in Uganda has been punishable by life imprisonment since colonial Britain outlawed it in 1950. But today’s lawmakers have deemed that too lenient. A new law signed on May 26th by President Yoweri Museveni provides for the death penalty for some same-sex acts, including those that might spread HIV. Other clauses envisage long prison sentences for “promoting” homosexuality or even for renting a room to a gay couple. “We have a culture to protect,” said Anita Among, parliament’s speaker. “The Western world will not come to rule Uganda.”
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It is not just Ugandan homophobes who cloak themselves in anti-colonial garb. In Ghana, the preface to a similar bill warns of “the infiltration of foreign cultures”. Some Kenyan politicians, who hope to pass a law of their own, have described LGBT rights as “a second colonisation” designed to shrink Africa’s population.
Western governments have indeed become more assertive about sexual rights as their voters have become more liberal. But the West’s conservative culture warriors are also pushing their ideas in Africa, feeding a moral panic in societies where homophobia is already routine. Uganda’s bill is “the end product of a propaganda war that was started long ago,” says Fox Odoi-Oywelowo, Uganda’s sole MP to vote against it.
The politics of the family crosses borders and continents. Consider a conference on “family values and sovereignty” organised by the Ugandan parliament in March. It brought together religious leaders, youth activists and MPs from 20 African countries. Others attending included delegates from Family Watch International (FWI), an American group that helped develop the programme, and Christian Council International, from the Netherlands. Afterwards they met Mr Museveni and his wife Janet, the education minister, who is a born-again Christian. Some speakers at the conference denounced homosexuality, sex education and other threats—as they see them—to the African family.
Sharon Slater, the president of FWI, spoke about “the child sexualisation agenda”. For two decades she has been building networks in Africa to oppose “comprehensive sexuality education”, which she says sexualises children without parental consent. In a written statement FWI said it has never supported anti-homosexuality bills in Africa and opposes several sections of Uganda’s new law. It urged Mr Museveni to include provisions for “voluntary counselling” for people who experience “unwanted same-sex attraction”.
Other speakers at the conference were enthusiastic proponents of the legislation. One of them was George Peter Kaluma, an MP from Kenya, where he has submitted a bill modelled on the Ugandan one. Another was Sam George, the man behind Ghana’s proposed law. He was also a guest at FWI’s African Family Policy Conference last October, held, with no sense of irony, in Utah.
Many of those attending share a belief that the liberal West is trying to sexualise children (in debates about Uganda’s new law, politicians routinely conflate homosexuality and paedophilia). For African conservatives, Western culture wars offer inspiration. “The language has been globalised,” says Kapya John Kaoma, a Zambian priest at Boston University who has studied anti-LGBT politics. Gillian Kane of Ipas, an American group that campaigns for safe abortion and contraception, argues that aspects of FWI advocacy are “fear-based” and widen the space for such politics, though African politicians bear most responsibility for the laws.
A meeting in Moscow in 1995 between an American historian and two Russian sociologists who blamed homosexuality for population decline laid the ground for the World Congress of Families, an American anti-gay network that opposes same-sex marriage, promotes “the natural family” and has organised conferences in Africa. For many years its representative in Russia was Alexey Komov, a right-wing activist close to figures allied to the Orthodox church. Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine he also sat on the board of CitizenGO, an online community which has co-ordinated social-media campaigns against abortion and gay rights in Africa.
Local sources and Western diplomats in Uganda speculate, without so far producing evidence, that Russian money may have oiled the progress of the anti-gay bill through parliament. Russia’s embassy in Kenya has gone out of its way to praise Ugandan politicians for “stand[ing] firm to protect traditional values”.
Tradition can be widely interpreted. Sylvia Tamale, a Ugandan academic, has argued that African societies once had a nuanced understanding of sexuality, before colonial missionaries imposed rigid moral codes. Some countries are recovering a lost culture of tolerance. In 2019 a court in Botswana struck down the country’s sodomy laws, saying they were “imported” by the British.
Nowadays most Western governments support gay rights. America, which gives almost $1bn a year in development aid to Uganda, has hinted at economic repercussions in response to the new law. President Joe Biden has already forcefully criticised it. Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, distanced himself from his country’s bill after meeting Kamala Harris, America’s vice-president. Some African politicians cite this as evidence of the West using its leverage to undermine laws that many Africans support.
The best chance of change comes from within. In Uganda gay people have been arrested, blackmailed, denied health care and evicted from their homes. “We live in fear and uncertainty every day,” says Clare Byarugaba, an LGBT activist at Chapter Four Uganda, a rights group. But she and her comrades are not backing down. Some have already filed a court challenge to the law. “One way or another,” she says, “we will once and for all destroy this bill.” ■
Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill is now law
It is part of a culture war in Africa that has ties to the West
Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill is now law
It is part of a culture war in Africa that has ties to the West
Jun 1st 2023
A gay Ugandan man holds a pride sign as he poses for a photograph in Uganda Saturday, March 25, 2023. A prominent leader of Uganda's LGBTQ community on Thursday described anguished calls by others like him who are concerned for their safety after the passing of a harsh new anti-gay bill. (AP Photo)
Homosexuality in Uganda has been punishable by life imprisonment since colonial Britain outlawed it in 1950. But today’s lawmakers have deemed that too lenient. A new law signed on May 26th by President Yoweri Museveni provides for the death penalty for some same-sex acts, including those that might spread HIV. Other clauses envisage long prison sentences for “promoting” homosexuality or even for renting a room to a gay couple. “We have a culture to protect,” said Anita Among, parliament’s speaker. “The Western world will not come to rule Uganda.”
Listen to this story.
Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.
It is not just Ugandan homophobes who cloak themselves in anti-colonial garb. In Ghana, the preface to a similar bill warns of “the infiltration of foreign cultures”. Some Kenyan politicians, who hope to pass a law of their own, have described LGBT rights as “a second colonisation” designed to shrink Africa’s population.
Western governments have indeed become more assertive about sexual rights as their voters have become more liberal. But the West’s conservative culture warriors are also pushing their ideas in Africa, feeding a moral panic in societies where homophobia is already routine. Uganda’s bill is “the end product of a propaganda war that was started long ago,” says Fox Odoi-Oywelowo, Uganda’s sole MP to vote against it.
The politics of the family crosses borders and continents. Consider a conference on “family values and sovereignty” organised by the Ugandan parliament in March. It brought together religious leaders, youth activists and MPs from 20 African countries. Others attending included delegates from Family Watch International (FWI), an American group that helped develop the programme, and Christian Council International, from the Netherlands. Afterwards they met Mr Museveni and his wife Janet, the education minister, who is a born-again Christian. Some speakers at the conference denounced homosexuality, sex education and other threats—as they see them—to the African family.
Sharon Slater, the president of FWI, spoke about “the child sexualisation agenda”. For two decades she has been building networks in Africa to oppose “comprehensive sexuality education”, which she says sexualises children without parental consent. In a written statement FWI said it has never supported anti-homosexuality bills in Africa and opposes several sections of Uganda’s new law. It urged Mr Museveni to include provisions for “voluntary counselling” for people who experience “unwanted same-sex attraction”.
Other speakers at the conference were enthusiastic proponents of the legislation. One of them was George Peter Kaluma, an MP from Kenya, where he has submitted a bill modelled on the Ugandan one. Another was Sam George, the man behind Ghana’s proposed law. He was also a guest at FWI’s African Family Policy Conference last October, held, with no sense of irony, in Utah.
Many of those attending share a belief that the liberal West is trying to sexualise children (in debates about Uganda’s new law, politicians routinely conflate homosexuality and paedophilia). For African conservatives, Western culture wars offer inspiration. “The language has been globalised,” says Kapya John Kaoma, a Zambian priest at Boston University who has studied anti-LGBT politics. Gillian Kane of Ipas, an American group that campaigns for safe abortion and contraception, argues that aspects of FWI advocacy are “fear-based” and widen the space for such politics, though African politicians bear most responsibility for the laws.
A meeting in Moscow in 1995 between an American historian and two Russian sociologists who blamed homosexuality for population decline laid the ground for the World Congress of Families, an American anti-gay network that opposes same-sex marriage, promotes “the natural family” and has organised conferences in Africa. For many years its representative in Russia was Alexey Komov, a right-wing activist close to figures allied to the Orthodox church. Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine he also sat on the board of CitizenGO, an online community which has co-ordinated social-media campaigns against abortion and gay rights in Africa.
Local sources and Western diplomats in Uganda speculate, without so far producing evidence, that Russian money may have oiled the progress of the anti-gay bill through parliament. Russia’s embassy in Kenya has gone out of its way to praise Ugandan politicians for “stand[ing] firm to protect traditional values”.
Tradition can be widely interpreted. Sylvia Tamale, a Ugandan academic, has argued that African societies once had a nuanced understanding of sexuality, before colonial missionaries imposed rigid moral codes. Some countries are recovering a lost culture of tolerance. In 2019 a court in Botswana struck down the country’s sodomy laws, saying they were “imported” by the British.
Nowadays most Western governments support gay rights. America, which gives almost $1bn a year in development aid to Uganda, has hinted at economic repercussions in response to the new law. President Joe Biden has already forcefully criticised it. Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, distanced himself from his country’s bill after meeting Kamala Harris, America’s vice-president. Some African politicians cite this as evidence of the West using its leverage to undermine laws that many Africans support.
The best chance of change comes from within. In Uganda gay people have been arrested, blackmailed, denied health care and evicted from their homes. “We live in fear and uncertainty every day,” says Clare Byarugaba, an LGBT activist at Chapter Four Uganda, a rights group. But she and her comrades are not backing down. Some have already filed a court challenge to the law. “One way or another,” she says, “we will once and for all destroy this bill.” ■
Like clockwork.
Dipsey Doo
Superstar
Like clockwork.
Breh, don't bring ignorance into here. Museveni has been considered a tyrant since the 1980s, he's been in office nearly 40 years, rigs every election and rules the country with an iron fist. He came to power by starting the Ugandan Bush War that killed over 100,000 civilians and since then he's also been implicated in the Rwandan Civil War, First Congo War, and Second Congo War.
Here's an Amnesty International report from 1990 talking about their human rights issues:
Uganda: The human rights record 1986-1989 - Amnesty International
When the National Resistance Movement (NRM) took power in January 1986 it declared its commitment to restoring respect for human rights and the rules of law in Uganda. Three years on, this Amnesty International report reviews the NRM government’s human rights record. It describes the appalling...
www.amnesty.org
Here's a Human Rights Watch report from 2001 talking about their frequency of torture:
Here's a Treasury Department report from 2019 talking about their continued human rights abuses:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm775
They've always been on this time. Saying, "Human rights abuses are okay so long as gay people get the worst of it" would be wild dumb.
