*This is not unrealistic. I’ve known people who insist that they did not discover their gayness until later in life. And after that discovery I’d say they were not bisexual, because they never returned to hetero functioning.

How many underage children were turned out by their parents only to have their lives threatened in the streets and those same parents NEVER prosecuted for child abandonment or endangerment? In so many ways it’s the law enforcement establishment allowing such an illegal outrage because of tacit approval of abusing gay children.

And because I mentor gay youth, especially those at risk, I know how many kids were beaten, young lesbians raped or threatened with it.
There is more of an undercurrent of a similar attitude as in Uganda, of parents preferring a dead gay child to a living one.

Unspeakable I know. But we’re speaking about it now, and that makes all the difference.

For the defence of Ugandan homosexuals, we actually did speak.

Val Kalende gave a very powerful speech, on which Odonga Otto commented that if it was not for the bill, we would not be coming out of the closet.

As for Odonga Otto, Mutua eviscerated him very, very nicely. When a master is doing the job, we less equal mortals just stand back and watch the dissection. And, it was indeed worth watching!

They understand that this law isn’t really about gay people at all. It was concieved to be used against opponents of the Ugandan dictator.

This has been clear for some time now. Which is why it is all the more important for the international community to maintain the pressure it is applying to keep such a weapon from becoming operational.

If they value their jobs, homes and liberty, they will fall into line regardless of what Museveni decides.

And the people of Uganda need to keep in mind that such tyrants do not stop with one out-group, but will persist until they themselves are destroyed by their tyranny along with all of those appeasers that played into the game of being pitted one against another.

None of them are really sure what is going to happen to this law now that it has become an international headache for the regime. It is all up to Museveni, since he is the dictator. There is no reason for them to stick their neck out one way or the other until it is totally clear what Museveni is going to do. If they value their jobs, homes and liberty, they will fall into line regardless of what Museveni decides.

“Would you apply to be a hangman if the person to be hanged were your son?”

When Odonga nodded yes, Mutua said, “There is something deeply wrong with you.”

Obviously, there are a lot of people in Uganda—and elsewhere in Africa—that have something “deeply wrong” with themselves. Clearly Makai Mutua has that part right along with:

“People who express extremist views are, in my view, always the ones who have read the least.”