I have watched on in horror as my church leaders (Anglican) endorsed the anti-gay bill but are opposed to the death penalty as if that is a concession.

I can't believe that our pastoral mentors who are always stressing that we are all sinners, and that we should forgive fellow sinners could agree to such a hate-filled law.

As I boy we grew up being told wonderful bible stories and the more interesting and captivating, the ones my LORD and SAVIOUR told in parables.

One is poignant, the stoning of the adultress, and Jesus's assertion, that the non-sinners were the only ones qualified to throw even one stone at her. Jesus was sinless and so was entitled by his statement to throw a tempest of stones at her first, and then the angry mob next, but he didn't.

He then set the standard that even though you think you are sinless, neither should you cast the stone. The church has fallen right into the trap, churches in Europe did, associating themselves with the state. This association will blur where the state begins and the churh ends.

Hence the failings of the state will be construed to be the failings of the church and this will in turn lead to lack of trust or confidence in our faith leaders, and by extension in the wonderful faith, we have began a journey that will lead us to the european situation where spirituality is vitrually dead.

The church in essence by supporting this law has started to categorise sin into different tiers. I have not seen any concerted effort by the church to increase punitive measures for corruption, torture and unlawful detention etc

It creates a perception you can do the above and get scot free, a small sentence but God forbid if you are gay, only your life will do. I consider engaging in homosexual sex as a sin(that's my belief), but it's not the first of all sin, neither the last, SIN is SIN. And besides what I believe or do not is my right and will not impose it on another neither would I want someone imposing their belief on me.

I can not trust politicians nor government as custodians of morality one bit and doing so will be laughable, giving them such wide ranging discretion and power will only lead to it's abuse. A crime that is next to impossible to prove, is the easiest to abuse, and is one which should not have such punitive punishment.

Wait when opponents of this government start being indicted in court with shady witnesses, and their fortunes are left to the mercy of the court, it's one's word against the other and so, the verdict of guilty or innocent will be 50/50 irrespective of guilt or innocence of the accused.( Even pastors have taken to accusing each other of homosexuality)

Furthermore, the freedom to worship, believe, associate is enshrined in this constitution.But this bill serves to impose the beliefs of some on others, how is that consistent with the constitution. What will be next? Code of dress? It's interesting to note that the one of the chief backers of the bill,Dr.Nsaba Buturo, the minister of Ethics & Integrity(whatever that means) once tried to revoke the license one of the popular music video channels(Channel 5 East Africa TV) accusing it of promoting immorality. This is the same person who served under the brutal regimes as a district commissioner,and funny enough was tasked to suppress the current president's guerilla advance to statehouse, what a perfect custodian of ethics he is!

I am also dissapointed that we Ugandans can have an uproar against actions of two consenting adults, but will not so much as make a whisper when officials steal our funds even those meant to save lives, what bigotry and hypocrisy!

I for one will stick to my LORD and SAVIOUR for guidance by:- 1.Loving God with all my strength, heart and soul. 2. Loving my neighbour as I love myself. Only through this will I not unwittingly become a pharisee.

I cannot make a informed comment based in the little information in the article anti-homosexuality bill may be justified in their situation. I wish that we had better laws that can protect the innocent wives and girl friends as men sleep around and visa versa. How ever want to spread the HIV virus is free to do it in Namibia, if I am HIV positive and angered an external law can constrain me and protect the fellow citizens from me.

I cannot make an informed comment based on the little information in the article anti-homosexuality bill may be justified in their situation. I wish that we had better laws that can protect the innocent wives and girl friends as men sleep around and visa versa. How ever want to spread the HIV virus is free to do it in Namibia, if I am HIV positive and angered an external law can constrain me and protect the fellow citizens from me.

Mr/Mrs. Minister, You're absolutely right. Here are deseases without any cure such like malaria, typhoid, and sexual transmitted desease such as HIV ect, ect that is/was/are being created by Homosexuality lifestyle which is ranpantly killing many people exspecially so in Africa and this confuse individual is saying Homosexuality is a human right. What's more human right than a life of an inocent individual whose culture NEVER know what's homosexuality??? Can that individual answer that question?? Is pleasure with deverstation more important than a human life; especially so, an inocent person?? Is it?? How more pleasure can we have in this world that intends to destroy others?? How much more?? Homosexuality is a dirty and sick lifestyle !!! There are too many problems Africa is facing right now, why adding more on those problems when the others have not yet being taking care of or solve on the continent. Let's don't never allow any sloopy mistakes and decission makings to kill us all in Africa, NEVER!!! Those who fighting for the spread of homosexuality are doing so basically for their pleasure and nothing else. Sex is between a woman and a man; and nothing else. If there was something else, then the almight Lord who have just created one sex.

I would like to start my post by pointing out that I am not gay nor do I intend to be one, but it doesn’t matter since foryohjonathan000 has indicted everyone who is not anti-gay. Here is my advice to you… If you’re going to write something on an international website for thousands to read, the least you can do is make some sense. Okay, maybe you’re illiterate, but you should at least have someone check your spellings, punctuation, sentence structure and most importantly, your reasoning. I hate to say it buddy, but you wrote a long paragraph of garbage. Your reasoning is poorer than a two-year-old. For example, you stated that the African continent has a plethora of problems; including, poverty, malaria, HIV/Aids, corrupt dictators, hunger, civil wars, etc, etc. And the eradication of homosexuals will resolve all these problems? That is so stupid. Maybe it’s you who need to explain how gays start civil wars and how killing gays will resolve malaria. You’re dumb, and I will not dignify your idiocy any further.

Now that foryohjonathan000 is out of the way, here is my real question: why do people who advocate violence against other people, always invoke “God?” I will assume that it is so because God will never come down to clarify anything. We never hear from God, but everyone assumes they know what God wants. Throughout the history of mankind we have seen more harm than good done in the name of God. Wars have been fought, innocents slaughter, all for God’s sake. So here is my prayer: Dear God, if you truly exist, the least you can do is to speak to us and clarify some stuff. Clarify for the Israelis and the Palestinians who Jerusalem really belongs to. Speak to us and clarify for the Muslims and Christians (and all the other religions) who is serving you the right way. Clarify for us whether we need to murder people because of their sexuality. If you do not speak to us and tell us what you want, everyone will continue to assume they know what you want, and I think you know how that goes; your existence will continue to be of detriment to mankind. The irony is I’m told that you’re this loving and caring God. Maybe you should appear in Time Square in New York City on New Year’s Eve or even the Muslims annual pilgrimage to Mecca. There will be plenty of witnesses. The fact of the matter is you will not show up. My question is, why not? Is it because you don’t want to, and that you rather sit and watch all the chaos and mayhem that are created in your name? Or is it because you don’t exist? I will never know.