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"The law... calls for life imprisonment for anyone who engages in gay sex...."

"The law also decrees the death penalty for anyone convicted of 'aggravated homosexuality,' a term defined as acts of same-sex relations with children or disabled people, those carried out under threat or while someone is unconscious.... [There is also] a prison term of up to 20 years for anyone who promotes homosexuality, a vague provision that activists fear could be used to target agencies supporting L.G.B.T.Q. people, including those providing lifesaving AIDS treatment.... [O]ver the past few years, political leaders, along with domestic and international religious organizations, began ramping up anti-gay campaigns and warning about what they call a threat to family values. Politicians also began making baseless claims about a plot to promote gay activities and lure children in schools to homosexuality.... Some analysts said the law was meant to scapegoat gay people and distract the public from mounting domestic challenges, including rising unemployment and skyrocketing food prices...."

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Gahrie বলেছেন...

Wait a minute... I thought all cultures were equal, and that it was wrong to promote one culture over another. Wouldn't it be cultural appropriation for Uganda to copy our values instead of preserving their own? I'm confused, someone help me out here.

Christopher B বলেছেন...

If you can't tell the difference between this and so-called "Don't say Gay" you might be a Democrat.

rhhardin বলেছেন...

Tt's testimony from primative man for a natural revulsion to homosexuality. Uncontacted Brazilian tribes need to be studied.

Humperdink বলেছেন...

"Some analysts said the law was meant to scapegoat MAGA people and distract the public from mounting domestic challenges, including rising unemployment and skyrocketing food prices....""

FIFY

Kate বলেছেন...

I googled. Uganda is overwhelmingly Catholic and Anglican. The most traditional wing of both Churches are in Africa. If you think this is some King Solomon's Mine thing, you're wrong.

Shouting Thomas বলেছেন...

Politicians also began making baseless claims about a plot to promote gay activities and lure children in schools to homosexuality...

Some baseless claim. The gay fresh meat perverts in the U.S. are using the public schools to lure kids. I'd assume that people outside the U.S. are looking at the disgusting Pride scene here in the U.S. and deciding they aren't going to let it happen in their countries. That's encouraging.

The Ugandan measures seen rather draconian, although who trusts anything The NY Times writes? NY Times' writers are disgusting gay and trans groomers determined to turn the public schools into gay and trans recruiting centers. The fresh meat factory always needs new recruits.

Back to the closet and shaming for gays seems the right path to me.

gilbar বলেছেন...

remember! white (cis) males are THE BIGGEST THREAT!!!
IF you keep thinking,
maybe someday lefties will Realize that they are living in The MOST Tolerant society, Ever..

Then, you're STUPID; and don't know much about lefties

Dave Begley বলেছেন...

NYT comments. The Ultra MAGA Republicans are bringing this exact same law to America!

Andrew বলেছেন...

If you're against this law, you are a racist. If I understand the rules correctly.

Amexpat বলেছেন...

Yes, the best way to stop gay sex is to incarcerate a large number of gay men in prison. That'll put an end to it.

Kevin বলেছেন...

Some analysts said the law was meant to scapegoat gay people and distract the public from mounting domestic challenges, including rising unemployment and skyrocketing food prices.

Just refer to the gay people as “MAGA Republicans” and you’ve covered your bases.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

Maybe Britney Griner should think about staying away.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Dave. I wonder what percentage of MAGA or even Ultra MAGA voters are gay. Probably divides evenly with Biden type voters I would guess.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

I googled. Uganda is overwhelmingly Catholic and Anglican.

It’s also overwhelmingly Black. What do you make of that?

boatbuilder বলেছেন...

Aesop had it right. The boy who cried wolf.

It took me a moment to realize that this is about Uganda and not Ron Desantis. I think "baseless" was the trigger word.

Lyle Smith বলেছেন...

Soon the US military industrial complex will for a re-colonization crusade of Africa to protect the LGBTQ+ and intersectionality.

rwnutjob বলেছেন...

Shouting Thomas:
Exactly.
"Baseless"
Bravo Sierra

wendybar বলেছেন...

Meh. Jane Fonda wants to kill people who don't want to kill babies. At this point, what difference does ANY of it make.

https://youtu.be/xUMHUKK2KJM

Temujin বলেছেন...

Don't they know it's Gay Pride Month? How does Google handle this in Uganda?

Looking forward to the comparisons to Florida.

Jamie বলেছেন...

Uganda is overwhelmingly Catholic and Anglican. The most traditional wing of both Churches are in Africa

I can't say how these churches are being run now, but twenty years ago or so, I remember hearing that although the Catholic priests were publicly supposed to be celibate, they generally had wives. Bishops, two or more wives, in accord with their higher status.

Birches বলেছেন...

Maybe trying to export the rainbow flag throughout the world has some negative consequences?

Tina Trent বলেছেন...

The death penalty is reserved for men raping male minors or adults incapable of giving consent, or knowingly transmitting AIDS to another. I'm of course not endorsing outlawing homosexual sex itself, but we have (often uninforced) laws for any rapist of children or for knowingly transmitting AIDS. But despite the passage of CEDAW, rape of girls and women is virtually never prosecuted in Uganda. Male rapists of females rarely even suffer social consequences. Females who are caught in adultery are, on paper, no longer punished, but there is little social condemnation when they are extralegally punished, and the majority of women in Uganda experience domestic violence. Political dissidents are imprisoned and tortured. It's not just gays. It's never just gays. In fact, with the relatively small population numbers of gay men, these other human rights violations destroy many more lives. So why is this the only topic usually mentioned in the msm? If we're going to talk about human rights violations in Uganda, let's not erase the vast majority of its victims. It is a "democratic" dictatorship that oppresses all of its people, but the largest number of its victims are women and girls.

~ Gordon Pasha বলেছেন...

Uganda better keep its eyes on teachers. They are apparently much more likely to be pedophiles that priests.

https://go2tutors.com/teachers-more-likely-abuse-kids/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Dept.,a%20method%20of%20recruiting%20victims.

mezzrow বলেছেন...

"I literally can't tell the difference between this guy and Ron DeSantis." - random NYT reader

Inga বলেছেন...

The ambiguous language in the Ugandan law and the vague language in Florida’s 1557 law is no coincidence. The laws leave room for people to use it in ways that that allows for the most discrimination without running afoul of the law. In the US, the Constitution does not allow for vague laws and Florida’s 1557 law may be unConstitutional.
The Vagueness Doctrine

“The law, which also encourages the public to report any suspected acts of homosexuality, contains ambiguous language that makes it difficult to interpret.”
NYT link Althouse provided
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American Christian Nationalism is making inroads in African culture, it seems. Trampling on human rights based on extremist interpretation of a religion, hmmm who does that sound like?

“The swift passage of the Ugandan bill, she added, was partly driven by the support it received from organizations outside the country.

Those include Family Watch International, an Arizona-based organization that promotes the bogus practice of conversion therapy to change someone’s sexual orientation. Just days after the bill was first passed in March, the organization’s American founders helped organize a conference in Uganda among African lawmakers to promote anti-gay measures continentwide.

“The passage of this bill has implications beyond L.G.B.T.Q. rights,” Ms. Kane said. “By trampling on human rights and constitutional law, this bill is a political project for authoritarianism.””

NorthOfTheOneOhOne বলেছেন...

So are America's LBGTQ+ activists all heading to to Uganda to fight this injustice? Shouldn't be too hard. Uganda is a small nation and we've got all those military drag queens now....

Paul বলেছেন...

Gays are the main spreader of AIDS.. and AIDS in Africa is a great scourge.

Hence the harsh penalties.

n.n বলেছেন...

ChatNYT may not be aware that transgender intercourse, especially through the black... back hole... whore h/t NAACP, was used by primitive civilizations in progressive societies to make boys and girls take a knee, beg, pledge to the social elites, slavers, and in supplication tribal gods, goddesses, and strongmen. Also, Africa is still a forward-looking hotbed of the AIDS transdemic and other socially liberal cultural contagions.

Saint Croix বলেছেন...

One of the main punishments of prison -- no sex with the opposite sex -- doesn't work with homosexuals.

I'm not saying it's a life sentence in a club spa. But if you were threatening to lock me up in a prison with a bunch of hot girls, let's just say that's not a scary threat.

n.n বলেছেন...

Some places in Africa, perhaps Uganda, are exposed to Rainbow symbols and rhetoric, and pride parades (i.e. lions,lionesses, and cubs play in gay revelry), which may be have been garnered and conflated attention to albinophobia, and, as in empathetic cultures, seeks to socially distance itself (e.g. trans/homosexuals from trans/neos etc.). That said, when first you practice political congruence ("=") is a many splendored thing.

n.n বলেছেন...

Progress. #HateLovesAbortion

n.n বলেছেন...

A wicked solution. Progress. #HateLovesAbortion

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

Clearly, we need to get some white girls on the ground in Uganda pronto to teach these crazy, mixed-up Ugandans to stop acting white.

Undoing the damage done by those who once shouldered the White Man's Burden is the White Girl's Burden.

Alexander বলেছেন...

When you advocate homosexuality and then it turns out the slippery slope really does mean you're pushing it on kids within a decade of "we just want to be treated like everyone else" , other people outside the system take note and say, no we're not going to have that here and in fact we're going to take drastic measures to make sure it doesn't even take root.

Own the backlash, lol

It's also worth nothing that the AIDS rate in Uganda is order of magnitudes greater than even the most prevalent parts of America, and they have ordersnof magnitude less resources to paper over the social consequences.

In the end, natural law triumphs.

The Crack Emcee বলেছেন...

I demand to see Dylan Mulvaney and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and all the PRIDE organizations flying over there to give them a piece of their minds
Don't just do like the Nazis did and attack people who don't fight back - be like Hitler attacking Russia and let's see how you do when someone's ready for you
Blacks walked into gunfire and water hoses for our freedom - how about YOU?

Aggie বলেছেন...

Just checking, has it become fully illegal in the US yet, to disapprove and be disgusted by sexual perversion?

Big Mike বলেছেন...

No point making a snarky comment about being tolerant of other cultures; that’s just too obvious.

Oso Negro বলেছেন...

"Politicians also began making baseless claims about a plot to promote gay activities and lure children in schools to homosexuality..." He he he. Good for Uganda. They clearly witnessed how the "baseless claims" have worked in the USA>

n.n বলেছেন...

The Ultra MAGA Republicans are bringing this exact same law to America!

The greatest risk to the [pro-]Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness of individuals in the transgender spectrum, past, present,and progressive is transdemics in polyamorous relationships through the back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP, domestic disputes over drugs and greenbacks, and Levine's dreams of Herr Mengele.

Mason G বলেছেন...

"Wait a minute... I thought all cultures were equal, and that it was wrong to promote one culture over another."

All cultures THE LEFT approves of are equal. You're not a leftist? Then what you think doesn't matter.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Ugandans can pass all the kooky laws they want to. Democracy! Why would a noted travelphobe care what laws exist where she’ll never go. Should we have our fascist State Department threaten them? Raise the rainbow flag at our embassy like we did in Afghanistan? What? Wait until you find out how China handles open homosexuality

After all what has 40 years of “acceptance” bought the good American people? Has our governance improved having “out” leaders? No. Mostly all we got was more public talk about sexual preference that has finally slid down the slippery slope to include outright grooming in public schools, men beating up girls in athletic competitions, a Secretary of Trans who cares more about taking “man” out of air traffic terminology than actually improving transportation issues like aging ports, delays, derailments and China running all the cranes at freight terminals. We get an Army missing recruitment goals because trannies have replaced the “be all you can be” campaign and the armed forces are purging their ranks of patriots and “white fragility” whatever that is.

Where are all the alleged benefits of this enforced diversity? Quality is down, morale is low, suicides at an all time high, recession, profits falling, babies without formula after 2+ years of shortages, public health held in contempt for their lies killing people, lowest trust in news media ever recorded, elections rigged, cities burned with no arrests or wrongdoers punished, DOJ targeting parents for demanding schools teach the three Rs instead of CRT and holding trans strip-tease story time.

Where have Americans benefitted from our tolerance and acceptance of people who can’t shut up about who they want to fuck?

Lars Porsena বলেছেন...

Proponents of cultural relativism also tend to argue that the norms and values of one culture should not be evaluated using the norms and values of another. So, just shut up.

Leland বলেছেন...

Who knew Uganda was run by white supremacists neo-nazis?

mikee বলেছেন...

A non-Islamic legal sanction against homosexuality demands a huge response, because complaints about Islamic anti-gay laws can lead to beheading.

I could call this seeking low hanging fruit, or cowardice.

hombre বলেছেন...

Unfortunate. My son lives there and is creating employment opportunities for Ugandans, hundreds of them. The blowback from international LGBTers and their panderers will no doubt impair that effort because, after all, poor and starving Ugandans must be punished for the acts of leaders over whom they have little or no control.

Gay sex is the world's most important activity, isn't it?

JK Brown বলেছেন...

In America, we can't even get life in prison for pedophiles who offend against children, who have a very high probably of re-offending if released. And here, I'm talking about the strict definition of pedophile: "a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children". Not the common refrain by the new pietist of sex with a 17 years-364 days 'child'. The hebephilia and ephebophilia offenses would need more nuanced adjudication. But there is no nuance to an offense against a pre-pubescent child.

Robert Cook বলেছেন...

"Wait a minute... I thought all cultures were equal, and that it was wrong to promote one culture over another. Wouldn't it be cultural appropriation for Uganda to copy our values instead of preserving their own? I'm confused, someone help me out here."

You're not confused. You're just trolling.

Robert Cook বলেছেন...

"Back to the closet and shaming for gays seems the right path to me."

Of course it does.

Bender বলেছেন...

The excerpt is all about anti-gay this, anti-gay that, yet the NYT sees fit to toss the Ts in with them, as if they are all the same thing.

And while this genuine homicidal mania is going on, you have folks here saying that if you "misgender" a T, you're committing genocide.

Jupiter বলেছেন...

First World Problem.

Jupiter বলেছেন...

"Politicians also began making baseless claims about a plot to promote gay activities and lure children in schools to homosexuality....".

Uh-oh! "baseless claims". It's always helpful when some lying sack of Left Fascist shit at the NYT clues us in as to what's baseless.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

When loud Thomas is right he’s goddamned right:

The gay fresh meat perverts in the U.S. are using the public schools to lure kids. I'd assume that people outside the U.S. are looking at the disgusting Pride scene here in the U.S. and deciding they aren't going to let it happen in their countries. That's encouraging.

walter বলেছেন...

See? Pushing back against tuckerware puts us on a SLIPPERY SLOPE!

n.n বলেছেন...

In America, they arrested people attending church. In Canada, they arrested people protesting the jab/shot. In the West, they sequester "burdens" of evidence in sanctuary States. Civilized bullshit.

n.n বলেছেন...

But if you were threatening to lock me up in a prison with a bunch of hot girls

Thus males identifying with the feminine gender for diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and forward-looking social progress in prisons, classrooms, locker rooms, etc. in a woke gesture to th politically congruent and shout out to the trans/homosexual males who groomed in schools, churches, scouts, etc. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #AlbinophobicEntreaty

Inga বলেছেন...

Importing ultra right wing Christian nationalism to Africa. Culture wars and religious extremism trump human rights.

Calls for US anti-rights groups to face action over Uganda anti-gay law
US and EU have been vocal in condemning Uganda’s anti-gay bill – but silent about their own ‘culture war’ exporters


“Rights campaigners in the country say the law is the culmination of more than a decade of collaboration between Ugandan elite interest groups and US ultra-conservatives, and call for any international responses to its passing to target not just Uganda but these US actors too.

“The US government has done nothing to stop its citizens from exporting hate,” he said. “We exposed Scott Lively and Lou Engle, these Americans who spoke and met publicly with Ugandan politicians and supported the anti-gay bill in 2009, but the US government [turned] a deaf ear.”“

Birches বলেছেন...

Inga thinks black Africans are incapable of making their own laws without help from white Arizonans.

Soft bigotry of low expectations

Gahrie বলেছেন...

You're not confused. You're just trolling.

Admit it, even you heard Alan Rickman's voice in your head as you typed that....I certainly did as I read it.

Gahrie বলেছেন...

I can't say how these churches are being run now, but twenty years ago or so, I remember hearing that although the Catholic priests were publicly supposed to be celibate, they generally had wives. Bishops, two or more wives, in accord with their higher status.

Given European religious history, we're hardly in a position to cast stones.

takirks বলেছেন...

As an observation... The thing that the LGBTWTFBBQ types seem not to realize is that their preferred sexual activity almost always engenders a deep and visceral revulsion in others, when they make it clear what they're actually doing. I have no personal animus against gay sex, but if you're doing it on my bunk (which happened during my military career) when I'm not present, or doing it in front of me...? We have a problem. One that's going to be dealt with absent any sensitivity or remorse.

Do it with kids? That I find out about, because you rub my face in it? Yeah; there will be repercussions.

Tolerance only goes so far; there's a commensurate duty implied when you plead for tolerance, and that duty is "Don't fly your disgusting perversions in the faces of those you're begging tolerance from..."

I don't know too many people who're willing to put up with these things impinging on their personal spaces; the more "the community" presses into these spaces, the less actual tolerance they're going to get. Moving into the schools? Yeesh. Big, big mistake.

Frankly, I'm about done with anyone who flies the freak flag, to include the heterosexuals who constantly bring their little fetishes out into the open. You wanna screw incessantly? Do it on your own time, away from public spaces. Also, please refrain from projecting your sexual issues onto the kids by dressing the pre-pubescent little girls in thongs and crotchless underwear... Or, advertising such where I have to see that crap and be disgusted. You want to sexualize children? You've got a problem, and I don't care whether you're heterosexual or whatever flavor of other deviancy you prefer: IT SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING.

I don't get the mental gap that exists with some folks I've run into, of late: They're absolutely certain they won't let their kids be alone with anyone from the church, yet they're fine with them going to drag queen shows for kids, mostly unattended. WTF? Madness.

You turn on the news, these days? You're left wondering if the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah didn't look similar to what's on display, there.

DavidUW বলেছেন...

Uganda was the Pearl of Africa for the British Empire.
Clearly keeping up the laws and morals of the good old days.

Inga বলেছেন...

Exporting Prejudice: How the West promotes homophobia in Africa

“The latest round of homophobia – which demonises some of the world’s most vulnerable people and communities – is being enacted by populist leaders who claim to be protecting ‘African values’ against the ‘colonial imposition’ of LGBT rights.

The irony here is striking. These leaders conveniently ignore the fact that homophobia has its roots in colonialism.

In an overwhelming number of cases, the first explicitly homophobic laws in Africa were introduced by colonial administrators and Western missionaries – not by African leaders.

The British were particularly problematic: while 33% of former French territories criminalise homosexuality today, the figure rises to 66% in Commonwealth countries. As Aileen Kimuhu recently wrote, this means that “properly understood, homophobia is a legacy of colonialism – and it is one that a genuine process of decolonisation would have removed”.

Today, it is right-wing evangelical leaders who have taken up the baton of exporting prejudice. Through massive amounts of funding, the staging of conservative political conferences abroad, and media disinformation campaigns that promote extremist interpretations of religious texts, these groups have emerged as key drivers of this toxic agenda.”

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Inga you are full of shit and hate. I am one and live among many right wingers of all ages and none of the Christians I know and I know hundreds is a “christian nationalist” whatever your fevered imagination thinks that is. We all have a live and let live attitude and do not heckle or hate anyone. My best friend in high school was gay although I didn’t know until later when he felt freer about expressing it. His other two best friends were Leroy (gay with the accent on “Roy” part of his name also a singer like Vince) and Lenny Kravitz (not gay). My partner and co-editor of the school newspaper was a lesbian and I took her girlfriend to Senior Night at Disneyland and Mere went with Vince. We were a fun foursome.

So I despise being lumped in with the people Inga hates just because I’m a patriot and a Christian. But my question from earlier stands unanswered: Where have Americans benefitted from our tolerance and acceptance of people who can’t shut up about who they want to fuck?

walter বলেছেন...

Do they have Kohls?
https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-5977065/baby-sonoma-community-pride-bodysuit-set.jsp?prdPV=25

readering বলেছেন...

Posts like this always bring out the best in AA commenters.

Doug বলেছেন...

Those wacky Ugandans! What kind of hijinks will they be up to next?

Rusty বলেছেন...

Robert Cook said...
"Wait a minute... I thought all cultures were equal, and that it was wrong to promote one culture over another. Wouldn't it be cultural appropriation for Uganda to copy our values instead of preserving their own? I'm confused, someone help me out here."

"You're not confused. You're just trolling."
He's just repeating back what the left has been saying for decades. Admit it, Bob, If Uganda was purely socialist you'd be applauding this.

Gahrie বলেছেন...

As an observation... The thing that the LGBTWTFBBQ types seem not to realize is that their preferred sexual activity almost always engenders a deep and visceral revulsion in others,

As an added observation, most homosexuals feel exactly the same way about heterosexual sex. But apparently that's OK.

Inga বলেছেন...

MJB Wolf,

“So I despise being lumped in with the people Inga hates just because I’m a patriot and a Christian. But my question from earlier stands unanswered: Where have Americans benefitted from our tolerance and acceptance of people who can’t shut up about who they want to fuck?”

This is your understanding of the issue? You are an idiot.

Inga বলেছেন...

Cruz condemns sweeping anti-gay Uganda law as ‘horrific’ and ‘wrong’

MJB Wolf, even Ted Cruz is smarter than you.

Shouting Thomas বলেছেন...

The cost of keeping an AIDS patient alive in the U.S. is $1.7 million over his life. The U.S. can probably afford this and, since the fag hag kink is the norm among the AWFLs, we probably have no choice but to foot the bill. You can’t say no to the rich, spoiled brat fag hags. Their kink is a sacred civil rights issue.

I doubt that Uganda can afford to foot the bill for gay men to fuck a dozen guys in the ass every night. That’s what set off the AIDS epidemic, gay men engaging in promiscuous anal sex in the bathhouses of LA, SF, and NYC. It’s a lie that tens of thousands of gay men died at the hands of homophobic mobs. They committed suicide with their own sexual behavior, proving that the stereotype of gay men was accurate.

I’d bet Uganda is struggling to bear the cost of the vile, disgusting behavior of gay men. Gay men are a public health disaster. They generate one VD epidemic after another with their promiscuous play in one another’s piss and shit. My bet is that Uganda isn’t responding to a moral issue, that they are responding to a financial issue that threatens to bankrupt them. They probably can’t afford to humor the kinks of fag hags.

Birches বলেছেন...

Ugandans can't make their own laws without white people.

--Inga

walter বলেছেন...

Keep Western influences out.
"An alarming growth in rapes of children, often by relatives who believe that sex with a young virgin brings mystical powers or can even cure AIDS, is devastating families across much of Africa by spreading the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, to otherwise sexually inactive girls.
Police and court officials, social workers and women’s rights activists say sexual violence against children is becoming a significant--although mostly unspoken--contributor to the disease among the youngest generation of this AIDS-stricken continent, where new data show overall infection rates skyrocketing in the last few years.
“It is hard to find a virgin of 16 nowadays, so men are turning to babies under 10,” said Mamelato Leopeng, an AIDS counselor at the Esselen Street Health Center in Johannesburg in neighboring South Africa. “They are looking for clean blood. It is all based on ignorance and a lack of education.”
Confronting sexual issues is so taboo in most African cultures that rapists are frequently let off the hook--and, some say, implicitly encouraged--because few families will endure the public shame of acknowledging the abuse, even when they suspect HIV may have been transmitted.
Some Healers Prescribe Pedophilia as Cure-All
Unscrupulous practitioners of traditional herbal and spiritual medicine, which is hugely popular across Africa, are fueling the problem by prescribing pedophilia as a remedy for everything from money woes to AIDS. In some instances, poor relatives quietly tolerate the crime, allowing a daughter to go with an older man for much-needed cash or as traditional compensation for a family debt or ancestral transgression. Others demand payment from the rapist and then remain silent.
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Health officials in South Africa say adolescent girls are twice as likely to become infected with HIV as boys, a reflection of their increased sexual activity, often unwilling, with older men. At her Johannesburg clinic, Leopeng said, about one-third of the HIV-infected men she encounters have bought into the belief that sex with a virgin will cure them, and they are further convinced that the needed “dose of purity” is rendered ineffective with a condom.“It sometimes seems that we do nothing but rape cases, and we see only the tip of the iceberg,” said Jacqueline Pratt, acting chief magistrate of the criminal courts in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. “We even have cases of children still in [diapers] being raped. It is society gone upside down.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-16-mn-13708-story.html

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Ooh the burn. Ted is free to have a different opinion than mine. At least it’s his own. He’s smart. Maybe I’m not. Hard to say. I think stupid people read “right wing media” and parrot back bad takes from the Hive about “christian nationalists” because that’s the current target for your ritual “2 minutes of hate” and you are nothing if not a perfect parrot for the nutball Left. I’ll be sure and note that you appreciate Ted Cruz today even though he’s a God-fearing patriot too. What a special day for you! Broad brush hate for most right wingers but kudos for Ted. I’m sure you made his day.

Tina Trent বলেছেন...

Actually, Uganda has some of the best AIDS outcomes in Africa due to their early promotion of abstinence, monogamy, and condoms, called ABC. The program also involved criminalizing sex work and promiscuity -- not just for gays, but for everyone, and to more strictly punish pedophiles and rapists. It was not our program: it was their program, though its efficacy led us to promote similar efforts in other African countries.

In the early 1990's, I was assigned to work with refugees and immigrants in Atlanta to lower STDs in those populations. The Nigerian program was unambiguously the most effective throughout Africa. But it was literally reviled by the extremely powerful gay activists running the AIDS industry here and by extension through our state department. Draw your own conclusions, and then decide exactly what it is we "exported" to Africa, besides lifesaving medical care generously provided by our taxpayers, and most enthusiastically promoted by Bush I and II.

One more thing: AIDS was primarily a heterosexual disease in Africa due to the prevalence of traveling male workers using prostitutes, especially along trade and labor corridors, then spreading it to their wives and other women, and the high vulnerability of women exposed to multiple STDs. Homosexuality was not openly discussed, so little was known then about bisexual behavior and its role in spreading STDs in Africa. But, understandably, women in Nigeria and elsewhere embraced the ABC plan and its efforts to enforce Christian ideas of monogamy. Countless lives were saved. Surely you can't criticize that outcome.

Inga বলেছেন...

Birches seems to think the Ugandan Kill/Imprison the Gays law is something she can support and would love for it to be implemented here. Right Birches? Birches can’t see beyond her own bigoted nose, she likes black people as long as they hate the gays and want to kill or imprison them. Birches doesn’t care if a particular group of people she doesn’t like gets persecuted. Birches thinks that Uganda is far away and who cares about black gay people there anyway. Birches is not a good example of a Christian woman.

Simple enough for you Birches? Is Ted Cruz smarter than you too?

Inga বলেছেন...

GENEVA | WASHINGTON, D.C., 29 May 2023— The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are deeply concerned about the harmful impact of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 on the health of its citizens and its impact on the AIDS response that has been so successful up to now


“Discrimination Threatens Progress in the AIDS Response

Uganda’s progress on its HIV response is now in grave jeopardy. The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 will obstruct health education and the outreach that can help end AIDS as a public health threat. The stigma and discrimination associated with the passage of the Act has already led to reduced access to prevention as well as treatment services. Trust, confidentiality, and stigma-free engagement are essential for anyone seeking health care. LGBTQI+ people in Uganda increasingly fear for their safety and security, and increasing numbers of people are being discouraged from seeking vital health services for fear of attack, punishment and further marginalization.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Inga still thinks AIDS has something to do with LGBT issues in Africa. Bless her heart! Such a perfectly progressive way to think.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Just think how powerful it would be if American foreign policy concentrated on selling Freedom as a positive good to the rest of the world, spread the powerful idea of a Constitutional Republic and stayed the hell out of “social” issues in other societies. But no we bow to China and the false God of capitalism. China has the “make a profit” part down pat but we can’t even say “Freedom” or “Tianamen” or even “Uiger” in their presence. The more progressives talk about “exporting our values” the more it looks like we are adopting the worst values of our near-peer rivals.

takirks বলেছেন...

Gahrie said:

"As an added observation, most homosexuals feel exactly the same way about heterosexual sex. But apparently that's OK."

None of it is really "OK", but the deal is, when you're a part of a minority that's barely 3% of the population, and you have demonstrated a proclivity for preying on the young...?

You would be wise not to raise attention, and consider the impact of your actions. Today, things like the Pride Parades in San Francisco are attractive, risque, and "fun". Tomorrow? They will likely be looked at in quite the same way the Berlin nightclubs of Weimar Germany were during "post-Weimar times".

Excess always leads to an equivalent reaction, which are generally full of unpleasantness, repression, and hypocrisy. Truly smart money goes down on "Let's not provoke the normies, no matter how good it feels to put it in their faces... There are rather more of them than us..."

Of course, nobody ever said that the LGBTWTFBBQ community was particularly smart or self-aware as a block; most of them can't even figure out what sex they are, and lack any form of real self-knowledge or awareness outside the narrow bounds of their sexual gratification. Which is why any society with any damn sense keeps them out of the mainstream and away from the levers of power, if it wants to last.

Not that sexually-obsessed heteros are any different in terms of the damage they do, but they occur in somewhat smaller quantities across their larger swathe of the population.

In the end, the whole thing boils down to people lacking self-control being too concerned about their sex lives, and acting out in public. Once your obsessions leak outside the privacy of your bedroom, you've got issues. They start impinging on other people's kids, you're setting yourself up for a serious fall--Ain't nobody putting that investment into someone, raising them, nurturing them, and then going to look the other way while some depraved individual decides to act out their sexual fantasies with them, claiming a right to "help them transition".

We're going to see a spate of outright violence in the next few years that's going to be very, very ugly, and take a lot of innocent life with it. Percentage-wise, gays aren't even a tail trying to wag the dog; it's more like "tail-tip" vs. the entire dog, and tails can be ohsoeasily docked. In some cases, it's even desirable for the dog...

n.n বলেছেন...

This is the same policy that Democrats followed during the Covid-19,20,21,22 coronavirus season. This is the same policy initiated with Pelosi's Capitol Hill fire. The same policy followed in sanctuary States with abortion policy and civil rights denied to citizens and legal residents. This is not the policy followed in San Francisco during the AIDS transdemic that reduced the viability and sequestered thousands of trans/homosexual males for the sake of social progress and social justice.

hombre বলেছেন...

Igna: "Importing ultra right wing Christian nationalism to Africa. Culture wars and religious extremism trump human rights."

Igna and her ilk don't know shit! My son has lived in Uganda for ten years. At one time the country was being decimated by AIDS. Serious government action including criminal penalties for homosexual activity helped curtail the epidemic. Meanwhile LGBT-loving NGOs charged with reducing AIDS in Africa bleated that the obviously effective measures were counter productive. A lie.

Ugandan antipathy to LGBT behavior has to do with loss, not "ultra right wing Christian nationalism." Contrariwise, leftwing twats like Igna will tout the LGBT culture war regardless of the casualties, particularly if they are "only" Africans.

Jim at বলেছেন...

This is your understanding of the issue? You are an idiot.

Why don't you answer his question?

"Where have Americans benefitted from our tolerance and acceptance of people who can’t shut up about who they want to fuck?”