Uganda to tighten law against homosexuality

[ccharles000]

http://www.365gay.com/news/uganda-to-tighten-law-against-homosexuality/

(Kampala) The Ugandan government has announced a major offensive against gays and lesbians in the African country, saying it will prosecute anyone who comes out.

Sex between two people of the same sex already is a criminal offense in Uganda - punishable by life imprisonment - but Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo told a weekend news conference he does not know of a single conviction.

Buturo said the government is concerned about what he called the “mushrooming” number of gays and lesbians in the country.

Under the legislation being planned it would be illegal just to be gay

“We want it to become law in that if someone is a homosexual or confesses to being a gay or lesbian, then he is a criminal,” Buturo said.
Last year Uganda’s leading Muslim cleric called for gays to be rounded up and marooned on an island in Lake Victoria until they die.

“I asked President Museveni to get us an island on Lake Victoria and we take these homosexuals and they die out there,” Mubajje said. “If they die there then we shall have no more homosexuals in the country.”

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1. The multiculturalists will plead that we have to respect their different culture

I say bullshit.

Some cultures just suck and deserve our condemnation.

[ccharles000]

3. I agree.

[Ian David]

2. He also wants to ban miniskirts. Uganda is no fucking fun.

I remember a few years ago watching an episode of The Amazing Race when they were traveling through Uganda.

There was this one American competitor who was a TOTAL asshole, and he got in a dispute over cab fair with a Ugandan taxi driver.

Anyway, the Ugandan police got involved, and the American was being a TOTAL DICK to the cop, who kept his hand on his gun the whole time.

"You are talking to a police officer," the cop told the guy. "You are in Uganda. Do you know Uganda. You know Idi Amin? Uganda? People disappear here."

And the guy KEPT being even a BIGGER dick.

I turned to my wife and said, "What you wanna bet this guy says "Hakuna Mattata" to the cop and gets his ass beat?

Sure enough, the American dickhead DID say, "Hakuna Mattata... No worries..." but somehow in the end managed to walk away unscathed.

[TrogL]

6. TV cameras tend to do that

Without the cameras there, he'd be dead meat.

[ccharles000]

4. kick

[LeftishBrit]

5. Scary. Disgusting right-wing nuts.

[Siyahamba]

7. Clearly, more pressing than poverty, starvation, crime, corruption...

Yes, the Ugandan government had to take action on this :sarcasm:

[tjwash]

8. Behold...the USA after another 50 years of neo-con rule.

They already have that fucked up attitude entrenched here, in the neo-con religious right bigots as it is. You can bust their unions, ship their jobs overseas, and tap their phones as long as gay people are not allowed to have the same rights as any other Americans.

In Uganda it's against the Koran...in main street it's against the bible. To-mae-to; To-mah-to.