Even though a lot of American right-wingers have spoken out against Uganda’s kill-the-gays bill, some of them are trying to minimize the death penalty aspect, claiming it’s just for gays who rape, commit pedophilia, or deliberately spread HIV. That’s a lie. But the truth is even worse than what the liberal side of the media is telling us. You want to know how bad? Under the proposed bill,
If you have gay sex just once and don’t tell anyone, you’re dead.
Wait, that can’t be right. Surely that would be all over the news. What I mean is,
If you have gay sex just once and don’t tell anyone, you’re dead.
Yeah, actually that’s right. It’s pretty simple, actually. Trace the steps:
- People who commit “aggravated homosexuality” are subject to death.
- Aggravated homosexuality includes all “serial offenders.”
- “Serial offender” means a person with prior convictions of homosexuality or related offenses, including
- Suggesting that someone have gay sex
- Trying to enter into a same-sex marriage
- Knowing someone had gay sex – or committed any other offence in the law – and not reporting that person to the authorities within 24 hours.
So think about that last item – the snitch provision. Stir in the idea that serial offenders are put to death. What you have is a quick, easy, two-strikes death sentence. For instance:
- Strike one: You’re convicted of gay sex.
- Strike two: You’re convicted of not turning your partner in to the authorities.
That’s two strikes. You’re a serial offender. And that means:
If you have gay sex just once and don’t tell anyone, you’re dead.
To be fair, the snitch provision only applies to you if have some measure of
power and control over other people because of your knowledge and official position; and shall include a person who exercises religious, political, economic, or social authority;
In other words, if you’re a minister; if you’re a bureaucratic supervisor; or if you’re the weekend night junior manager at a shop and oversee one clerk, then the snitch law applies to you — and it doesn’t place any limits on whom you’re obliged to rat out, so if you know anybody out there being gay, you have to turn them in.
Now, how about a few more two-strike death scenarios?
- If you try to get same-sex married, and don’t report your partner afterward, you’re dead.
- If you tell a gay man, “I think your boyfriend really loves you. You should be together,” and you tell the boyfriend the same thing, you’re dead.
- If you find out someone had gay sex and you didn’t turn him in. And you discover another friend did, too, and you didn’t turn him in, either – you’re dead.
Stop and ponder that. You don’t even have to be gay or have gay sex to be executed for aggravated homosexuality. And we can get even crazier, because the law says you yourself are guilty if you don’t turn in anyone who refuses to be a snitch. That means:
- If you discovered that a friend found out someone had gay sex and didn’t turn them in, and you didn’t turn in your friend for refusing to snitch, that’s strike one against you. And then if you didn’t turn in another friend for refusing to snitch, that would be strike two. You’re dead.
- And if you told a friend about each of those instance and your friend didn’t turn you in either time, then he’s dead, too, for his repeated refusal to snitch on your refusal to snitch on your friend’s refusal to snitch on someone who had gay sex.
It’s insanity. It’s almost impossible to have gay sex at all, under any circumstance, even just once, and not be subject to the death penalty under this law. It’s almost as impossible be loyal to a gay friend and not get the death penalty. This whole law is a death sentence factory. Don’t let anyone get away with saying otherwise.
Honestly? Even under these extreme measures, I’m not too worried about the Uganda law passing. From what I understand, only one (If not, an equally useless amount) of senators agree to it, and even if it did go through, we all know that Obama would veto, and that the supreme court would find it unconstitutional – the premise of that being the eighth amendment of the Constitution.
[Webmaster's note: This is a bill in Uganda. Obama has no power to veto it, and the US Constitution does not apply.]
Religion has always been mans way to control the mass’s to discriminate… or harm or kill someone or something they didn’t understand or someone that was different and slap a because god says so label to it so they can sleep at night. rules are good for everyone. Religion is good for no one.
human sacrifice animal sacrifice get real
All in the name of god… Remember the witch hunts? middle age crusades? the puritans. the things that were done in the name of god? make me want to puke. Religion has no place in a modern world with exception to self soothing if it makes you feel good to have an imaginary friend, or talk to dead person good for you… But to impose your ideas of good and bad to areas of life we do not choose (sexual orientation) which is like your hair or skin color. you did not pic it… you may be able to color it stain it bleach it or mark it or but it will always grow back the original color. Cheers!
What disturbs me is that I can’t seem to make anyone care about this. Even people who label themselves “citizens of the world” don’t seem to be able to do more than just frown for a couple of seconds. But we need our LGBT family in Uganda. We just don’t know that we need them.
Our opponents know that we need our LGBT family in Uganda. LGBT rights can only be framed as “risky social experiments” in a world where few LGBT people have rights…
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Reading that bill is almost surreal, like going back to another era. Phrasing like “procuring homosexuality” and “intent to commit homosexuality” made my skin crawl.
What were they thinking when they wrote this thing? Was it Bahati who actually wrote the bill? Why wasn’t it laughed out of parliament immediately? The witch hunts and false-accusations leading to imprisonment and/or death which would certainly ensue should this bill be passed should concern every citizen of Uganda and the world.
American evangelical complicity is evident in Bahati’s language. IN the opening principle of the bill to “protect the traditional family” could have come from the mission statement of any number of American Christian non-profits like Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and lets not forget Rick Warren’s ‘Purpose Driven’ influence in the region. The language from the opening presented as fact and not non-scientific hokum – “The legislation further recognizes the fact that same sex attraction is not an innate and immutable characteristic” — reflects a mind-set influenced by statements like — “Homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right.” Rick Warren said this during his 2008 visit with African religious and political leaders in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya.
Though most American evangelicals are skittering away from this like cockroaches when you turn on a light, we need to keep the pressure on to not only help our Ugandan LGBT citizens of the world, but to stem the rise of Evangelical influence in our government and Armed services.