Comments on: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill Put Off Until 2010

By: ----

---- — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:25:25 +0000

I was going to mention only sub-Saharan Africa, but thinking about it, what good has come out of any of those religions in Africa (or anywhere)?

The Egyptian and Cathargian religions are 99.99999% dead, and if it wasn’t for all the tourism the pyramids generate, Muslims would long-ago have blown them to pieces.

Many African tribes are forgetting about their culture and roots because they have been brainwashed into thinking those were Satanic and they would go to hell if they continued practicing their religion. Some of them even have the delusion that they are the “original Hebrews and Israelites” and the white Jews currently living in Israel are impostors.

Not to mention none of those religions in general see homosexuality and transgenderism in a good light, while
traditional African religions tolerated or even embraced them.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:17:20 +0000

“I wish Christianity (or any other Abrahamic religion) had never been introduced to Africa. Want another example of what happens when another culture’s belief system is messed with?”
Just for the record, Judaism originated in Egypt, Christianity in the Coptic Order has been there since at least the 2nd century and Islam has been in Africa since its earliest days in the 7th century. What I presume you are wanting to say is that the northern European and American bastardization of Christianity and the extremists forms of Islam have done Africa little good for the preservation of harmony. I am not sure of the history line of Judaism there. Perhaps Emily can comment on that.

By: GreenEyedLilo

GreenEyedLilo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:06:26 +0000

It’s not a reprieve by any means, but it is a little more time to get something done. Let’s make it count.

By: ----

---- — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:48:37 +0000

I wish Christianity (or any other Abrahamic religion) had never been introduced to Africa. Want another example of what happens when another culture’s belief system is messed with?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33356826/

By: Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:05:15 +0000

I live in Arizona, so my representatives in both the Senate and the House are not amenable to these suggestions, but has anyone in more liberal parts of the country brought this to the attention of their elected representatives?

This issue needs national and international attention. We need to start talking about the threat of sanctions if Uganda passes such a draconian measure.

We need to press that an international outcry would already exist, in full force, if “homosexual” had been replaced with any other minority group, like “jew” or “catholic.”

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:12:54 +0000

Rick Warren and every other American Evangelical who has given support to Ssempa should have Ssempa and his hate hung around their necks like an albatross. There should be no end to the protests at their churches until they publicly renounce Ssempa as a power-mad, genocidal tyrant who uses the love of Christ as a hateful bludgeon to consolidate his influence. Overseas support for Ssempa’s (and other homophobic Ugandan churches) MUST END.

The Ugandan Parliament is about to legally enact a genocide at the whim of this mad man and something, anything, everything we can do to stop it must be done.