It is just unbelievable to me that any country would be willing to pass a law that would deem HIV positive members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered communities to be EXECUTED. That is the case right now in the African country of Uganda. Once the playground of one of the most violent and notorious dictators, Idi Amin, now has the distinction of earnestly trying to pass into a law a bill that will that has the potential to create a “Gay Genocide” in Uganda.
This excerpt is taken from the article STOPPING GAY GENOCIDE by Michael A. Jones on Change.org: “The bill itself would create some of the harshest laws in the world related to homosexuality. It would call for the execution of LGBT people who are HIV-positive, and give lifetime prison sentences to other LGBT folks. It would also threaten to throw in jail straight people who do not report suspected LGBT people to government authorities, and set mandatory jail time for anyone who speaks favorably about LGBT rights. It’s kind of like institutionalizing the Salem Witch Trials for the 21st century, on a global level.”
What has to happen now? What will it take for people to understand that being gay isn’t a crime and certainly not a crime punishable by death or by lifelong prison sentences? Why can’t two consenting adults love each other without government intervention, religious intervention, or societal intervention?
Can we evolve, please?
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Hi Regina, sorry I can’t make the show from England, but just wanted to add an angle to the story. Of course this is totally wrong, and cannot be justified. But… in the west we have to remember who planted the homophobic seeds in some countries throughout the world… Christian missionaries who spread the “good” word to indigenous cultures are having their own dogma bite back what is now western liberalism. It doesn’t make it right, but we can’t simply cast blame without looking out our part in the views.
I completely agree. For many years missionaries have spread their version of “right” to the expense of the culture and rights of indigenous people around the world. There’s a lot of people to blame here but in 2009, I find it reprehensible after the Human Rights Campaign and hundreds of other organizations have worked so ardently to identify and ease suffering for all people that a law like this can even be considered.
Unfortunately being part of the gay and extended communities is one of the last accepted prejudices in the world (with exception to womens’ rights in some countries, which are devastatingly low to say the least). The fact that this sort of thing is happening IS giving rise to comparison to ‘Witch hunts’. I am sad to think of where else this kind of fear mongering can spread throughout the world to become legal to hunt and kill those in the LGBT community. This is disgusting and will be a hard-won fight in my lifetime. This is my (our) generation’s battle to win; why we have to fight for human rights is astounding, as they are BORN rights. Still amazing that man can take away his own rights time and time again…we NEVER learn as a race- the human race.