The United States remains committed to rebuilding northern Uganda by providing humanitarian assistance, including food, shelter, water, sanitation, and relief, to vulnerable people. … In 2008, USAID support for northern Uganda totaled an estimated $138 million.

Applying pressure through aid funding or some other economic mechanism is probably about the only thing available to us in this country where it comes to fighting this kind of legislation.

Readers here would be well served to understand the larger situation in Uganda before making an effort to work through US Government channels to prompt some kind of meaningful response to the legislation currently under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament.

Residents of other countries, as mentioned by Lynn David, may have similar levers.

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/silence_death.php

TRiG.

The last sixty years has seen efforts in all areas to decouple legal punishments from many types of sexual behavior.

Controlling sexual behavior is a longstanding value in all religious communities…

Absent existent legal guidelines on minority rights and privacy rights, laws were written based upon tradition, fear and multigenerationally held religious values.

Repression of “sinful behavior” and even thoughts is a valid form of religious practice…but when applied to the legal system it immediately becomes cruel, coersive.

The primary use of legal repression of sexual behavior in the US now applies to prostitution and adult sex with minors.

A second, lower form of repression, is still validated in the civil courts in the area of sexual harrassment.

Thanks again everyone for working to draw attention to this Uganda travesty…Exodus and others need to join your courageous and righteous cause.