March 17th, 2011
Despite numerous false media reports that Uganda’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been shelved, yet another report remind us that it is still very much alive:
The controversial Anti Homosexuality bill is one of several bills that Members of Parliament on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee are set to debate when the House resumes business next week.
…Speaking to the media at Parliament today, the committee chairman, Stephen Tashobya said though the bill has created both local and international concern, it is up to Parliament to pass the bill.
Tashobya says the committee will hold public hearings where stakeholders’ views will be heard and a report made to the House for debate and possible passing before Parliament closes the 8th Parliament.
This is added confirmation from last week’s report from the government-owned New Vision that the bill would be brought up for a vote during Parliament’s lame duck session which begins March 22.
As a reminder, this is what the bill would do if passed in its current form:
On Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed an amendment with nearly unanimous bipartisan support which calls on the Treasury to make foreign aide contingent on developing nations human rights records, including how those nations treat its LGBT citizens. Barny Frank, the amendment’s sponsor, singled out Uganda as an example of a country that abuses its LGBT citizens.
This time last year, the US State Department confirmed that it had repeatedly “reached out to the highest levels” in Uganda, including President Youweri Museveni, to kill the kill-the-gays bill. This was after the White House publicly condemned the bill, and Museveni confirmed that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally discussed the matter with him. This would be a good time for the President and State Department to become involved once again.
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leonardo ricardo
March 17th, 2011
Let the cowards assemble so they can continue to validate their bigotry (and stupidity).
Nicole
March 18th, 2011
This is the most savagely insane idea that I have ever heard of. What fuels this sort of hate, intolerance, and ignorance? I hope the U.S. doesn’t give Uganda one red cent in foreign aid. Not a single cent until they reject this homophobia and start protecting GLBT people. Money is a good motivator and about the only thing that will change their inhumane behavior. They are already pretty much a joke in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Tim
March 19th, 2011
Nicole- Most Ugandans will happily tell you that this hatred for us comes directly from, and is fueled by their (version of) Christian beliefs. In that I agree with them. They are wrong to hate us, but we would be wrong to cut off all aid, because the innocent, who suffer enough there already, would suffer even more.
What is needed, and what is so conspicuously absent, is a well organised, loud and well funded campaign by Christians in and outside Africa to counter this nasty development in Uganda.
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