Some rights activists have described the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a violation of human rights and want it to be withdrawn immediately.
The Bill introduced by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati would see a death penalty imposed on anyone engaged in gay sex with someone below 18 years, or when the accused is HIV-positive.
In a statement yesterday, a coalition of 17 local and international human and gay rights activists said the Bill only promotes discrimination and criminalises the legitimate work of national and international activists working in defence and promotion of human rights in Uganda.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. "This draft bill is clearly an attempt to divide and weaken civil society by striking at one of its most marginalised groups," said Scott Long, the director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Programme at Human Rights Watch.
But Mr Bahati yesterday insisted the Bill be introduced, saying; "Homosexuality is not a human right at all."
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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 doesnt matter since foryohjonathan000 has indicted everyone who is not anti-gay. Here is my advice to you If youre going to write something on an international website for thousands to read, the least you can do is make some sense. Okay, maybe youre 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 its you who need to explain how gays start civil wars and how killing gays will resolve malaria. Youre 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 Gods 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 Im told that youre this loving and caring God. Maybe you should appear in Time Square in New York City on New Years 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 dont 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 dont exist? I will never know.