Ugandan Leaders to Strategize Ways to Re-Enact Anti-Homosexuality Act

Jim Burroway

August 11th, 2014

Daily Monitor reports that the Parliamentary caucus of the National Resistance Movement, Uganda’s ruling party, will meet today to discuss the way forward for re-enacting the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was nullified by the Constitutional Court just days before President Yoweri Museveni was to attend a White House dinner in Washington, D.C. Museveni has confirmed that he will attend the meeting, according to MP David Bahati, who sponsored the original bill in 2009. According to Daily Monitor, there is a great deal of impatience among some of the MPs to get the law back on the books:

These MPs want Parliament to put on hold the handling of the ongoing Budget process and first ensure the restoration of the anti-gays law. There is also a request to the Speaker for the suspension of the House rules of procedure to allow the Bill to be passed without going through all the lengthy phases.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has reportedly given his support for the act.

Kampala is rife with rumors about how and why the AHA came to be struck down, especially since Ugandan courts are not known for acting with the kind of speed the Constitutional Court acted. The Ugandan magazine The Independent has a lengthy report outlining why they believe the law was nullified and Museveni’s options going forward. It’s hard to know how much stock to place in this report. None of the article’s sources are identified, and the point where the Independent discusses the judiciary’s independence — “No judge who opposes gay rights is ever appointed, according to those familiar with the process” — seems very unlikely. But it does show the kinds of rumors that are floating around Kampala.

Mark F.

August 11th, 2014

“The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has reportedly given his support for the act.”

Surprise, surprise!

Thomas

August 11th, 2014

Burroway and Kincaid –

Please take a break from posting historical notes which have already been posted a dozen times and instead do an analysis of the latest Regnerus survey on LGB and Christian attitudes towards sex and relationships. You guys were one of the first to take apart Regnerus and your multi-part analyses of other sham anti-gay research and talking points are what have made this blog an extremely valuable resource.

You need to get back to that greatness, and here’s the perfect opportunity:

www[dot]thepublicdiscourse[dot]com/2014/08/13667/

Jim Burroway

August 11th, 2014

This comment is off topic, but I’ll address it anyway. First, I cannot “take apart” a brief commentary that doesn’t discuss methodology or sampling techniques, and wouldn’t even try to do so. Bue more broadly, what Regnerus seems to have “uncovered” is that people, including Christians, who support same-sex marriage tend to have a healthier laissez-faire attitude toward sexuality generally and tend to be less judgmental of how other people order their lives. I find neither alarming nor surprising. In fact, I’d be surprised if that weren’t the case. A broken clock can still be right twice a day. Unless I’m really missing something, the only thing I can see to watch out for would be the “slippery slope” argument, which he explicitely disavows in the Public Discourse piece and I think we can hold him to that. Besides, with majorities just south of 60% supporting SSM, it’s going to be a tall argument to convince those majorities that they now have to support polygamy, an argument that hasn’t gained any traction no matter how many times they try to bring it up.

That said, the real key would be how he defines “gay and lesbian Christians,” and “gay and lesbian non-Christians.” If I can ever get a copy of his study — and so far it does not appear to have been published — then I can maybe uncover something there. But until then, I don’t really have anything to look at just yet.

FYoung

August 11th, 2014

I’m fine with the historical notes, which is something that very few other sites offer.

The BTB editors are volunteers; so, they get to choose what they want to write about.

Thomas, considering how important this is to you, why not do your own analysis of the Regnerus survey and publish it?

Jim Burroway

August 11th, 2014

Actually, Thomas’s suggestion was a good one. I didn’t take offense to it. If I can free the time, I may turn to it and give it a few more thoughts. But even if I do, it could probably be distilled in the comment I already posted.

Helen in Ireland

August 12th, 2014

Well, from the bits that I have seen Regnerus doesn’t have figures for heterosexual non – Christians, and my guess is that the figures for us are very similar to our LGBT friends. Not only that, the questions asked should be repeated to ask if the respondent would actually do any of those things themselves. My belief is that no matter how liberal the answer one gives with regards to non – interference in another person’s life or choices, it is very probable that you personally would not indulge in certain behavior (infidelity or polyamorous encounters).

Lynn David

August 12th, 2014

Lwanga is reversing his position? Or does he even remember that he came out against the bill back in 2009 or 2010? That earlier position was in line with Roman Catholic decrees.

Chris McCoy

August 13th, 2014

Lynn David,

It appears that Lwanga reversed his position back in 2012.

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