Comments on: Ugandan official says ‘kill the gays’ bill ‘not being reconsidered’

By: AndyP

AndyP — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:11:09 +0000

If that is the case then why not do away with the existing laws in Uganda that can potentially see homosexuals jailed for many years? Why have laws on the books that are not enforced, or can be arbitrarily enforced against homosexuals by corrupt officials?

By: steven kasiko

steven kasiko — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:08:10 +0000

Remove laws that are used to harass detain people because of being gays need to protect all people regardless of their sexuality.we want the government to throw away the anti gay bill and remove all laws that criminalize gays

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:45:55 +0000

As for the dormant sodomy laws on the books in several US states, it’s time for the gay equality federation organizations and gay activists in general to push for removing these dormant sodomy laws from the books of whatever states that still have dormant sodomy laws. The 2003 SCOTUS decision in Lawrence vs. Texas striking down US sodomy laws rendered these sodomy laws impotent. However, since they are still lying dormant on the books of several states, sometimes the various Frothy Mixes living in those states behave as if their states’ sodomy laws are in force and enforceable when in reality they are just dormant in their areas. There are those antigay nutballs whose belief springs eternal that these archaic sodomy laws should be revived. (even if that flies in the face of and contradicts the 2003 SCOTUS decision striking these sodomy laws down throughout the parts of the US where these laws were in effect up to the time of that SCOTUS decision). And so that individual states can’t get illegally attempt to revive their sodomy laws, it’s high time as late as 2012 for a push by pro-gay activists gay and straight alike….. in all those states with dormant sodomy laws on the books… to purge those dormant sodomy laws ONCE AND FOR ALL from the books whereever they exist. This is a new year in a new century and time for this country to update itself and to free itself of its anti-gay past same as countries here and there on different continents are doing as the years go by.

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By: Harry Underwood

Harry Underwood — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:14:12 +0000

As an SGL African American, I found the ambassador’s raising of the fact that it was the British who put the anti-sodomy laws in place as showing his own knowledge of Uganda’s colonial history. I’ll concede that.

The issue, then, is for the ambassador to also learn or explain how such laws, where enforced and however installed, do not help the citizens of the country beyond giving them a scapegoat for pervasive ills.

Not everything that was brought by the British to Africa was good or beneficial, and I don’t consider the British state, with its history, to be the best arbiter of morality or law. I personally wish that the British government would apologize for its role in the spread of such laws and the resulting damage done to societies.

I also hope that more Ugandans begin to realize this as well, not to say that there aren’t already.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:39 +0000

Thank Mr. Ambassador for standing your ground. You represented our country well by not pandering to the gay lobby. I am Ugandan, have lived in Uganda all my life and have never seen a gay person harassed. We have gay bars where they freely meet and hook up. Why should we always have to explain ourselves all the time. The West is being taken for a ride by unscrupulous Africans wishing to remain there by saying they are gay. I usually laugh when straight people turn out to be gay and in fear of ‘persecution’ when their visas expire.

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Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:00:55 +0000

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