Wholly because Randy wouldn’t be ‘saying’.

All day he’d be too busy day-dreaming about the breakfast buffet at Hotel Five Star to give a bugger about the homosexuals in a putrid gaol not 500 yards from his air-conditioned room. It might upset the people paying for the food and accommodation if he said rude things about them

Sometimes, you’ve got to know on what side your bread is buttered.

And how to ask nicely for ‘extra butter’.

Randy, plainly, knows how to ask.

ps: if your scheme does take off, count us in to contribute one of those gold drink cards*

(*An Australian $50 note is yellowish in colour — it’s nicknamed a “gold drink card”. A $20 is a “lobster”, look at it’s colour… Just thought you’d like to know, in case you visit.)

Oh, that’s for a one-way ticket. He’d have to get himself home.

After 20 years, generously described as ‘elusive’.

Less generously, a public lie.

/snort Timothy… except on this occassion of opportunity… Schmierer not only didn’t go directly to gaol, he picked up a cool $200 on the way round. I only wish life for gay men and women in Uganda was as innocuous as a board-game.

Too bad he got distracted by being a key speaker at the conference where he lent his authority – and that of Exodus – to the call for increased inforcement, life sentences, and forced reorientation.

Randy Thomas does have a history of arguing for leniency in sentencing. He has even lobbied the US Congress on this subject.

Unfortunately, he has argued for leniency for those that commit heinous violent crimes against gays and lesbians, but he has no real history of arguing for equal protection (or even decent treatment) for gays and lesbians. He opposes federal Hate Crime protections for gays and lesbians.

These would be the sort of laws that might be used against a violent mob that was chasing a suspected gay individual through a city like Kampala (though located in the US) with baseball bats, chains and whatever else they wanted to use to harm, kill or otherwise terrorize their victim.

And despite his new found fervent desire to plead the case for imprisoned gay people in Uganda, he wasn’t much interested in fighting the good fight for freedom from imprisonment for gays and lesbians in the US when the US Supreme Court was deliberating the Bowers v. Hardwick case.

Unfortunately for Randy, he has a public record. So, his attempt to paint himself as a decent human being is severely undermined his previous and present actions and inactions.