Ugandan Students Try to Lynch Gays

[DonViejo]

Source: TDB/The Daily Monitor

Students at a school in Uganda were suspended for rioting and attempting to lynch allegedly homosexual classmates earlier this week. According to the school, the fight broke out over a theft of school uniforms, but students told local news it was over the discovery of two males caught in a homosexual act. Local media reported that when the students were not suspended, the students began to riot and police had to intervene with tear gas.

Read it at The Daily Monitor

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[haikugal]

1. An American export...RW religion...what a disaster for these people. nt

[bluestateguy]

2. Don't give them too much credit

Africans are quite capable of hating gays all by themselves, with or without white American evangelicals.

[haikugal]

3. There has been a decades long concerted effort by a host of people and organizations...

http://www.alternet.org/story/153723/how_deep_is_the_republican_christian_right's_connection_to_the_anti-gay_bills_sweeping_sub-saharan_africa

[bluestateguy]

5. Yes, I know.

But my only point here is that homophobia was not exported to Africa by the US. Egged on and encouraged, yes, but I still hold that country and its people (who support such policies) far more responsible than the American red-staters egging them on.

Other countries and cultures are quite capable of abusing human rights without the help of the mean old United States.

[haikugal]

7. Agree but these people did more than just egg them on...and yes I consider them

(American wingers) guilty of doing this intentionally. Africans are capable of all kinds of superstitions and these people just built on it and created their idea of utopia.

[haikugal]

8. I think you're in the wrong website there buddy.

That's not true, however, in other parts of the world. The vitriol that has fueled U.S. culture wars for so long is now being exported, and some of our most ardent culture warriors are finding a far more receptive audience abroad.

In nations such as Uganda, Russia, Nigeria and Belize, an insidious homophobia engineered in America is taking root. I have seen this hate being spread with my own eyes.

In March 2009, while in Kampala, Uganda, researching reports of U.S. right-wing evangelical involvement in attacks on LGBTQ equality and reproductive justice, I was invited to a three-day conference on homosexuality hosted by the Family Life Network, which is based in New York. The keynote speaker was Scott Lively from Springfield, Mass., who introduced himself as a leading expert on the "international homosexual agenda." I filmed Lively over the course of two days as he instructed religious and political leaders about how gays were coming to Uganda from the West to "recruit children into homosexuality."

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaoma-uganda-gays-american-ministers-20140323-story.html

It's been going on for a very long time...

[Syzygy321]

9. OK, sorry, I didn't know any of that

And it's stupid and heinous.

I just get so damn sick of the "Blame America" (and, yes, "blame Republicans&quot meme - coupled with the total free pass other ideologies get. Just seems like people striking a pose to fit in with other people striking a pose.

I will read those sites when I get the chance.

May I still point out: some right wing people want to discriminate aginst gays, but no (uncrazy) RW Christian lynches them. So why would it happen in Uganda, if RWers were the only influence?

Still, I will delete my post. Thanks for your insights.

[haikugal]

11. No need to delete, we're adults, right?!

These groups are all affiliated and in many ways The Family is the common denominator. Do some reading and research and you'll find it's been going on for a long time and has infiltrated our government. No, it isn't a conspiracy theory, it's fact and very real.

We in America have been used as tools all too often...I believe we have to accept responsibility where it's due. I don't view that as bashing America, I view that as being an informed and active citizen. This is our government, or it's supposed to be....as it is I am not represented very well and have been ripped off for 30+ years...along with everyone else.

Research, read http://www.amazon.com/The-Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-American/dp/0060560053

And see what's really going on under the propaganda.

[msongs]

4. because....jesus nt

[cpwm17]

10. Uganda's a scary place for gays: