Uganda considers death sentence for gay sex in bill before parliament

www.guardian.co.uk (Beware the leftist spin) ^ | Sunday 29 November 2009 | Xan Rice

[USALiberty]

As a gay Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers, hate messages on his phone, police harassment and being outed in a tabloid as one of the country's "top homos". That may soon seem like the good old days.

Life imprisonment is the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, under an anti-homosexuality bill currently before Uganda's parliament. If the accused person is HIV positive or a serial offender, or a "person of authority" over the other partner, or if the "victim" is under 18, a conviction will result in the death penalty.

Members of the public are obliged to report any homosexual activity to police with 24 hours or risk up to three years in jail – a scenario that human rights campaigners say will result in a witchhunt.Ugandans breaking the new law abroad will be subject to extradition requests.

[USALiberty]

No comment. This speaks for itself.

[AndrewB]

Maj. Eaton: We have top homos working on it now.
Indiana: Who?
Maj. Eaton: Top... homos.

[deadrock]

I have my problems with the act(and agenda), but I am not prepared to go Muslim on them.

[humblegunner]

Life imprisonment is the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, under an anti-homosexuality bill currently before Uganda's parliament.

This really should have popped up when you booked your vacation package ping.

[Einherjar]

“If the accused person is HIV positive” President Obama wil allow him to legally immigrate to America.

[IbJensen]

Seems a reasonable action.

Unfortunately Uganda has more problems that their homosexual population.

[Vanders9]

I agree. I rate homosexuality as a perversion, an unnatural act, and a practice that is detrimental to any society, but I dont believe people should be executed for it. And this proviso that people who refuse to inform on them be subject to imprisonment is frankly very frightening.

[Pavegunner72]

hey-yo... :)

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“As a gay Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers...”

I couldn’t get past this lead.

How did “strangers” know he was a gay man?

And if he didn’t like the insults, why didn’t he do something so that “strangers” would have no idea what his “preference” is?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, because I’m not going to read beyond such an absurd lead, because it is a continuation of the PC brainwashing. We are supposed to assume that the homosexuals’ sexuality is a state/condition known to all, even strangers, but never noticed or acknowledged, and that it should receive no undue attention, other than being celebrated.

That is how schizophrenic the anti-establishment radicals are making society.

[Cicero]

As Wikipedia admits, Uganda “is one of the rare AIDS success stories.”

The largest religious group in the country is Roman Catholics, followed by Anglicans and other Protestants. About 12% are Muslim.

Success in reducing AIDS basically depends on sexual abstinence. Condom distribution is a sure-fire method for spreading AIDS. There was a similar statistical history in the Phillipines, also mostly a Catholic country.

[rae4palin]

Being born in Uganda IS a death sentence.

[Mobties]

Send a copy of this to Justice Breyer and his ilk for future reference whenever he can't find justification for his own views in the US Constitution.

Might as well send along a copy of the Shari'a and Hadith, too.

[freedomlover]

LOL
Great line setting up a great next shot.

[Anti-Utopian]

Gay rights had the potential to destroy civilisation, as the west could soon find out, he said.

Our nation is pretty keen on self-destructive behaviors, that's for sure. Just ask General George "Diversity" Casey.

[KarinG1]

Truth is, I don't have a problem with the penalties associated with perversion in their country. Diversity, dude, that's what is important these days. I got the memo. I'm just waiting for the inevitable bashing these guys will get from all of the liberal "human rights" groups who would similarly be righteously outraged if a real American as much as voiced approval of such a policy. You know, the way they always attack the Saudis and the Iranians and pretty much everybody associated with Islam for such savage and uncivilized behavior.

[ronniesgal]

actually I think Obama lifting the ban on HIV pos. people is more for third worlders than homos.
But in this case its win-win for Obama, 3rd world homos.
Blech.

[TexasFreeper2009]

being gay already is a death sentence.

[Brilliant]

Gee... I wonder if the Supreme Court will follow this foreign idea, as they are so often want to do?

[AdvisorB]

This isn't going to sit well with many religion of piece types.....I guess it's open season on goats now.

[Mac from Cleveland]

I call him General Crazy.

The gay militants in the US must have their panties in a twist over this but can’t vent like they want to—just like the femtards. Blacks and /or Muslims do what they do and the gays/feminists who run their mouths 24/7 about “patriarchal”this and “homophobic”that keep their pieholes shut for once.

As Ann Coulter says about Muslims:”Finally religious fundamentalists that the left are OK with”

BWAHAHAHA!