Watch: Lawmakers Cheer As Ugandan President Declares War on Homosexuals

[William769]

Apparently the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, wasn't coming around to our side when he admonished his Parliament last year for passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill without the required quorum and inferred that he would not sign it, reports David Badash in The New Civil Rights Movement. At his national party retreat last week Museveni told lawmakers that he will sign the bill, adding, “We shall have a war with the homosexual lobby, in the world, backed by these people and you.”

Captured on video, that line caught the crowd's attention as they all stood to applaud and cheer Museveni's declaration of war, which TV personality Piers Morgan has aptly dubbed “gay apartheid.”

According to Badash, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill "mandates jail sentences — including life in prison — for those accused of having sex with members of their own gender, and for those who know LGBT people but do not report them to authorities. Jail is also mandated for those who support LGBT civil rights and the LGBT community."

http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/02/17/watch-lawmakers-cheer-ugandan-president-declares-war-homosexuals

[hrmjustin]

1. Just plain evil.

[William769]

4. I would give you the breakdown of religion in Uganda

But then their would show up and ask me why I hate their Religion (as if it's not obvious to begin with).

[hrmjustin]

5. The embarrassment for me is that Anglicans in that country support this law.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Wasn't this one of the primary reasons for the schism?

I foresee a similar schisms for other denominations as well.

[hrmjustin]

8. We never had a schism worldwide.

In the us a few parishes left to form a new Anglican Church but it is not recognized by the Church of England so it is not in the communion.

[arely staircase]

30. yeah I know

pretty embarrassing.

[hrmjustin]

31. Sometimes I wish we can break communion with them.

[theHandpuppet]

11. Well now, wouldn't it seem a bit on the hypocritical side...

... for certain religious leaders to denounce anti-LGBT laws in places like Nigeria and Uganda when they are so busy lobbying for discriminatory laws elsewhere around the world, including here?

[William769]

15. Good point.

Which makes it even worse.

[theHandpuppet]

18. Sometimes, silence speaks volumes

But if folks realized the scope of the anti-gay, anti-woman lobbying going on under the code phrase "religious liberty", they'd realize why their religious leaders haven't spoken out. They are willing to sacrifice the lives of LGBTs in countries like Uganda, Nigeria and Cameroon in order not to undermine their ongoing battle against LGBTs in the U.S. and elsewhere.

[William769]

19. I agree.

Theres a reason

[TheMathieu]

2. Disturbing.

Things are about to get real worse for LGBT citizens across the world before they get better.

[DURHAM D]

3. .

[Blue_Tires]

7. Sadly, it's a tactic as old as politics itself...

Get pissed off and find some easily targeted punching bag to blame (glbt, immigrants, the poor, some ethnic/religious minority, intellectuals, neighboring country, taxes, workers' rights, feminists) for why things are so shitty in your nation, and soon enough the general public stops searching for the *real* reason why things are so shitty in their nation..

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Horrific, and Uganda is largely Catholic and Anglican but the leadership of

those Churches have not objected and continue to send tons of money and call hate mongers 'Princes' and 'Pastors' and that sort of rot. Same goes for the smaller Protestant communities, but no one around here promotes those leaders as they do the others.

[William769]

12. Exactly!

Don't hold your breath though waiting for a message from the Pope, this atrocity just won't make the cut.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. He is a maker of this hate culture, he spent years making superstition

laced attacks on LGBT people and their families in Argentina.

[William769]

22. I'll go one step further and say the Catholic Church

Has spent centuries perpetrating a fraud against civilization.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[theHandpuppet]

33. Now now, William, he has plans....

... to visit Uganda in October to celebrate with the government the canonization of Ugandan martyrs... and no, not the murdered LGBT activist David Kato nor the GLBTs being arrested, tortured and killed.

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/651627--the-pope-is-coming.html

[William769]

34. Good grief!

[theHandpuppet]

37. Yeah. Cool, huh?

Back the anti-gay bill and invite the Pope for a visit.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Church-invites-Pope-to-Uganda--denounces-gays/-/688334/2124848/-/lffn23/-/index.html

[sufrommich]

10. This is so scary. Where is the outrage for this?

While supposedly civilized governments shrug it off. Insane.

[William769]

13. To his credit, President Obama has spoken out.

[Glorfindel]

14. I suppose it would be unthinkable that we should consider cutting US aid to this vile regime?

Not to mention embargo, seizure of assets, and withdrawal of diplomatic recognition? No doubt we'll say "tut, tut" and "naughty, naughty" while they conduct their "war."

[William769]

16. And yes, you can tie these two threads to this one.

Seems to be a common theme.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024515807

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024515768

[hootinholler]

17. You can thank The Family for this

[William769]

36. Which family?

There are many dysfunctional one's to choose from.

[hootinholler]

39. The Family...

The Jesus Plus Nothing guys who put together the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. Very dysfunctional indeed, unless you are one of them then, it's very functional and successful.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-12-2009/jeff-sharlet

Or a better article here: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34783946/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/t/uganda-be-kidding-me/#.UwN1YYVZjpg

[sakabatou]

20. Find a scapegoat to a country's problems and the populace will almost always cheer.

[dickthegrouch]

23. They want reports of Suspected Homosexuals to the authorities?

Bury them in "reports" of every politician, clergyman, right-wing idiot, autocrat, hypocrite... in the country.
When they're afraid for their own safety maybe they'll pay a bit more attention to what they're doing.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

24. I think the scariest bit is the ban on advocating for gay rights.

Criminalising being gay is appalling, but at least there's hope it will change.

But a law which makes trying to change it a criminal offence in its own right is locked in, and leaves little room for hope.

[theHandpuppet]

25. Time to offer asylum to Ugandan LGBTs

If not, I'd like to know why the hell not.

[sheshe2]

26. Museveni is evil, as well as those that cheered.

Obama said in a written statement released Sunday. “At a time when, tragically, we are seeing an increase in reports of violence and harassment targeting members of the LGBT community from Russia to Nigeria, I salute all those in Uganda and around the world who remain committed to respecting the human rights and fundamental human dignity of all persons.”

http://nypost.com/2014/02/17/obama-condemns-ugandas-anti-gay-law/

[William769]

32. Look at all the Countries with Anti Gay Law's

Punishment ranges from fines to death just for loving someone of the same sex.

Grant you we don't have all the rights afforded to Heterosexuals here in America, but we don't even come close to some of these barbaric Countries.

Yes President Obama has spoken out on Uganda and I hope he even goes further with his actions.

[NuclearDem]

27. This post is obviously just a smear on President Museveni and the Ugandan people.

So I guess you just want us to bomb Uganda then huh? MIC tools.

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[joeybee12]

28. Not gonna watch, it would make me...

[countryjake]

29. K&R!

[geek tragedy]

35. abominable nt

[Jamaal510]

38. Sound like our RWers

might love it in Uganda.