Obama’s gay support irks Ugandans

The Observer ^ | 6/12/12 | PATIENCE AKUMU

[jimbo123]

2008 was an epic year for Africans. A black man, with African roots, won the elections in the most powerful nation in the world.

On the day Barack Obama was sworn-in, I was at a beauty shop where a crowd gathered around a 14-inch television to see their ‘brother’, icon and pride swear-in as the first US African American president. Thereafter, we walked with a sense of accomplishment. After all, Obama is not just black, his father was Kenyan.

The people of East Africa felt elevated. He is Luo, so the Luo ethnicities in East Africa declared themselves intelligent. Ugandans demonstrated their love for Obama by making chapattis (flat bread) and naming them after him. They wore Obama T-shirts, placed Obama stickers on their cars or wheelbarrows, and named their children and pets Obama.

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So when the Obama administration asked President Yoweri Museveni’s government to respect the rights of homosexual people, Ugandans murmured that the US was corrupting the African people’s sense of morality.

Obama was, presumably, a wayward son who would one day find his way back home where homosexuality is considered a perversion. But when, in May, Obama became the first American president to openly support gay marriages, the murmurs turned into fury. I watched the announcement on a plasma screen at Colline hotel in Mukono where I was attending a media workshop.

Adolf Mbaine, a media ethics lecturer at Makerere University, was livid.

“They do not support polygamy. But they want us to embrace homosexuals. Obama has betrayed Africans. He is a shame to us,” he said.

[jimbo123]

First gay president fail.

[immadashell]

When you lose the Ugandan vote, you’re toast!

[jimbo123]

Idi Amin would be disappointed, too.

[mylife]

Obama has queered every deal he has ever had with people.

[jakerobins]

[JudgemAll]

The submission to the state clause is to be gay and follow the gay official church month of June. This is completely unconstitutional and tyrannical.

[bukkdems]

But don’t they realize Obama will fight for the rights of women to wear the veil across the globe? This helps with the homo thing too; one partner can wear it.

[pistolpackinpapa]

Well, he just lost the Ugandan-American vote.

[napscoordinator]

I think gay marriage is a sin against God...However, I could care less what the Ugandan people think of us or our President (for about 5 months left).

[davius]

"He is Luo, so the Luo ethnicities in East Africa declared themselves intelligent."

Uurrmm???

[BenLurkin]

Somebody please remind the Ugandans that Hussein does NOT speak for most Americans on this issue.

[Boogieman]

“He is Luo, so the Luo ethnicities in East Africa declared themselves intelligent.”

Anyone who would declare themselves intelligent based on someone else, especially this moron, can’t be very intelligent.

[Dr. Sivana]

Uganda has a nasty history with this stuff, including a sodomite monarch King Mwanga II.

The great saint, Charles Lwanga, was martyred by this wicked malefactor:

Twelve Catholic boys and men and nine Anglicans were then burnt alive (another Catholic, Mbaga Tuzinde, was speared to death for refusing to renounce Christianity, and his body was thrown into the furnace to be burned along with those of Lwanga and the others[3]).

One of the reported reasons the ire of the king was particularly inflamed against the Christians was because they refused to accede to demands to participate in sexual acts with him.[4] Charles Lwanga, in particular, had protected the pages from King Mwanga's sexual advances.

From Wikipedia.

[tflabo]

“He is Luo,

Yep... A Luosy, Luo down Luoser gonna Luose in November.

[Persevero]

“A black man, with African roots, won the elections in the most powerful nation in the world. “

No, he is at least half white and apparently a lot middle eastern.

I look forward to having the first REALLY black president someday - Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, or another similar true American patriot - someone who can indeed be a President we can all be proud of.

[HIDEK6]

How many electoral votes does Uganda get?

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.

He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.

[KC Burke]

Posting by I phone has its glitches. LOL.

[Jack Hammer]

Guess it’s true what they say - you can’t go home again.

[Persevero]

“He hasn’t registered with any party or voted since 1972.”

That is very disappointing to hear. I didn’t mention him as a real possibility, just an archetype of a black American we could all be proud to support.

The right to vote includes the right not to vote, and I suppose that is up to him.

[ReformationFan]

‘Adolf Mbaine, a media ethics lecturer at Makerere University, was livid.

“They do not support polygamy. But they want us to embrace homosexuals. Obama has betrayed Africans. He is a shame to us,” he said.’

Fair point. Why would polygamy be a problem for anyone who supports homosexual activity?

[KC Burke]

His early involvement with possible appointed political office was frustrating. He disliked the Department of Labor when he was there. He learned he was too plain spoken and held little talent for diplomatically making a point. As Walter Williams, I think it was, told him, Tom you come across too nice when you meet people and then they are shocked when they find out what you are really like.

If Elliot and Babbitt were the heirs of Burke, and Kirk, Hayek with Nisbett following next, then Sowell stands above all others in the following generation.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

And certainly, you don’t want the Field Marshal (not to mention Conqueror of the British Empire) disappointed in you.

For the record, “The Last King of Scotland” is a very, very good film, and I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it. Forrest Whitaker’s finest hour; a genuine tour-de-force.