U.S President Barack Obama has criticized the controversial anti-gay law which has been proposed to Uganda's legislature.
Speaking at a national prayer breakfast in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Obama described the proposed law as "odious," according to a text posted to the White House website.
"We may disagree about gay marriage," he said, "but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are."
A bill before the Ugandan parliament proposes that penalties for homosexuality should be increased, raising the sentence for "same gender sexual activity" to life imprisonment.
At the same prayer breakfast, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also criticized the bill. "I recently called President [Yoweri] Museveni, whom I have known through the prayer breakfast, and expressed the strongest concerns about... [the] law," she said.
The bill has been roundly condemned by human rights groups. The organization which sponsors the breakfast, the Fellowship Foundation, has been associated with efforts to pass the bill, according to the ethics group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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Doesn't Dictator Obama have more than his fair share of problems in, and WITH, his own country of financial thieves, etc? lol
1. Uganda legislators are on the right path.
Only, killing of citizens IS ALWAYS going to be either overly punitive, or teach the wrong lessons (of violence) to the younger/less developed minds in the society.
2. Cure, 'Closet', Confinement, & Castration for those who sodomize and traumatize the children, should be the choice off responses to europeans and their homosexual COLONIZATION!
3. Any meaningful scientific investigation will demonstrate, without doubt, that homosexuality is a birth defect, or behavioral defect when children are sodomized and traumatized by adult perverts.
4. Since no one was born 'mating' with another, this means that the deviant homosexual behaviors HAVE TO BE LEARNED (and they shouldn't be)! They ARE NOT natural or normal!
5. While all healthy societies will have to tolerate (but seek to CURE birth, or behavioral defects imposed on the very young) healthy societies will also have the OBLIGATION to allow ONLY behaviors that are healthy for the individual and for the society.
6. Deviant behaviors that are claimed to come with birth/behavioral defects, CANNOT & MUST NOT be condoned or promoted as 'natural' or 'normal'. THEY ARE NEITHER!
7. If the deviant homosexual behaviors were natural and normal, then African societies (The First Societies) would have evolved such deviance as representative behaviors in their societies.
Yet, history has shown that homosexual deviance HAS NEVER BEEN a representative behavior in African societies. Nor has any homosexual society been a representative African society.
8. If lost, confused and DICTATORIAL European upstarts want THEIR homosexuality, then let them keep the deviance IN EUROPE, AND NOT colonize the rest of the planet with their filth!
Oh, but the lost and evil eurocentric leaders can't just join the family of nations and MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS ALONE!
The devilish eurocentric meddlers have to be constantly inviting 911-style reaction (to their long and interfering noses) from aggrieved 'victims' who have just had enough of eurocentric meddling. What a shame!
The most important message Christians ignore is Our Lord, God' s Words and Teachings as written in the Bible. That God created his children to be who they are, he loves each of them equally and God is the sole judge of how we live the lives he gave us. Contrary to what some preach or believe about homosexuality, it's neither abnormal, a behavioral defect, birth defect, learned behavior, mental illness or a chosen lifestyle. Homosexuality is no more of a choice, then heterosexuality. Neither make a conscious choice to be either heterosexual or homosexual, you are who God created you to be. Who in their right mind would consciously choose to be homosexual? Knowing by doing so, they're lives would be constantly filled with bias, discrimination, hatred, hate inspired violence, death and prejudice directed at them by supposed God loving Christians of all people.
To claim homosexuals are more prone to commit acts of pedophilia or sexually abuse children, couldn't be further than the truth. Years of research and studies have proven the vast majority of people who sexually abuse our children, are not homosexuals. But, committed by heterosexuals and the deviant behavior of incest is the most common act, where is the out cry over this? Why doesn't Uganda address this deviant behavior and enact laws that protect children from these heterosexual sexual predators?
Uganda, as does most of Africa, have existing laws declaring homosexuality illegal and no one spoke out against this. However, when David Bahati proposed a new law which would extend the punishment to include death, life in prison to homosexuals and HIV+ citizens, with most HIV+ people in Africa being heterosexuals. As well as threatening Ugandan citizens who know of a homosexual, and didn't report them to the government with imprisonment. Only then did the international community, who were so appalled by this horrific and heinous violation of Ugandan's citizens basic human rights, feel the need to speak out. When a country singles out a certain segment of their citizens for such harsh punishment which violates their basic human rights, it's the responsibility of the international community to protest, express their outrage and call upon the lawmakers of the country to reconsider enacting such a harsh law.
I commend Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, U.S. President Obama, the EU, Rev. Rick Warren and all who have condemned or spoken out against the Anti-Homosexuality Law. I can only pray David Bahati and the powers that be in Uganda, will follow God's love for all his children, look into their hearts and reconsider enacting this unnecessary and unjust law.
HOMOSEXUAL is a LEARN BEHAVIORAL and a MENTAL SICKNESS; it doesn't belong to any of the catgories of GOD giving sexuality. When the Earth of created, the Almight LORD created ONLY two people, " Men and Women" not men and men or women and women. This sexual lifestyle isn't fit for Africa Societies or Cultures has the colonialists are ALWAYS TRYING TO DESTROY AFRICA FOR THEIR SELFISHNESS AND GREEDY IMAGES. When last have the Colonist allow Africa forms of practices such as the right to married two or more women?? When?? Do you think today is like yesterday??? The colonist MUST stop dictating to Africa and the rest of the world, or else the world will end up be a castatrophy for them, and they will end up loosing bitterly. What a SHAME for such a lifestyle to be practice in any country!!!!
This is a topic that many Africans do not want to talk about. The fact here is, homosexuality is like any other Sin before God. I am a recovering Homosexual of 20 years. I was molested in my childhood by an older man. After i gave my life to Jesus, it was the only sin that i struggled with into my adult life. When i came to the U.S, I was then able to go through couselling and with the help of my church, I am now healing. I am married with a two years old child and another that is due in july.
Look my people, homosexuals are not the worst of criminals on earth and Africans have to come to grips with it. I am not from Uganda, and i feel for those who are struggling like i did for twenty years, trying to find myself. so please, you christian leaders in Uganda, should be trying to open windows for people who struggle with this sin to come through and seek help with the love of christ then throwing condemnation at them. There will always be homosexuals on the earth but there can also, be the loving christian who can pray for them make them know the hope in christ and let the Holy Spirit do his work. When jesus was on earth, those were the people he hang out with, to give them hope and a future like he did to Mary madeline, the prostitute who became one of his followers. Like drunkers, drug addicts, fornicators and adulterous; Homosexuality is just another addiction brought in the world by the devil and if, it did not feel good, noone who have been doing it. However, feeling good does not mean, it is right just like drinking wine, smoking, or sleeping with a boy ao a girl who is not your wife.
I also will like to ask the pastor who is showing gay porn to his congregation, to please, please and again,please, pray to the lord about this. you are bringing a stronghold into your church. The bible says, we should flee sexual imorality. All other sin is done out side of the body but, sexual sin, weather it is in the mind, all done physically, is done against the body. So do not take something to your church through which the devil can attack those members of yours, that are weak. Gay porn is what led me to remain an active homosexual for many years until three years ago. Yes, I prayed, Fasted for many days,many years, until, I came to America, and found a church that was willing to love me, a pastor and a councellor that did not just go to the as usual saying," you are going to hell";no, i found the one that showed me the love of christ and helped me through councelling, opening the word of God that showed me John 3:17.
The most important message Christians ignore is Our Lord, God' s Words and Teachings as written in the Bible. That God created his children to be who they are, he loves each of them equally and God is the sole judge of how we live the lives he gave us. Contrary to what some preach or believe about homosexuality, it's neither abnormal, a behavioral defect, birth defect, learned behavior, mental illness or a chosen lifestyle. Homosexuality is no more of a choice, then heterosexuality. Neither make a conscious choice to be either heterosexual or homosexual, you are who God created you to be. Who in their right mind would consciously choose to be homosexual? Knowing by doing so, they're lives would be constantly filled with bias, discrimination, hatred, hate inspired violence, death and prejudice directed at them by supposed God loving Christians of all people.
To claim homosexuals are more prone to commit acts of pedophilia or sexually abuse children, couldn't be further than the truth. Years of research and studies have proven the vast majority of people who sexually abuse our children, are not homosexuals. But, committed by heterosexuals and the deviant behavior of incest is the most common act, where is the out cry over this? Why doesn't Uganda address this deviant behavior and enact laws that protect children from these heterosexual sexual predators?
Uganda, as does most of Africa, have existing laws declaring homosexuality illegal and no one spoke out against this. However, when David Bahati proposed a new law which would extend the punishment to include death, life in prison to homosexuals and HIV+ citizens, with most HIV+ people in Africa being heterosexuals. As well as threatening Ugandan citizens who know of a homosexual, and didn't report them to the government with imprisonment. Only then did the international community, who were so appalled by this horrific and heinous violation of Ugandan's citizens basic human rights, feel the need to speak out. When a country singles out a certain segment of their citizens for such harsh punishment which violates their basic human rights, it's the responsibility of the international community to protest, express their outrage and call upon the lawmakers of the country to reconsider enacting such a harsh law.
I commend Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, U.S. President Obama, the EU, Rev. Rick Warren and all who have condemned or spoken out against the Anti-Homosexuality Law. I can only pray David Bahati and the powers that be in Uganda, will follow God's love for all his children, look into their hearts and reconsider enacting this unnecessary and unjust law.
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