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Uganda President: Gays "Recruiting" in Africa


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Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni mixed homophobia with anticolonial sentiments recently, warning a group of youths in his country that “European homosexuals” were recruiting in Africa.

Museveni spoke at an event in Kampala for high-achieving young people on November 14, according to the U.K.'s Daily Monitor.

“I hear European homosexuals are recruiting in Africa,” Museveni said, according to the Monitor. “We used to have very few homosexuals traditionally. They were not persecuted but were not encouraged either because it was clear that is not how God arranged things to be.”

Last month a bill was introduced in parliament that would make Uganda, a devoutly Christian country, one of the most dangerous places in the world for gay people and their allies. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill would completely outlaw gay sex and the “promotion of homosexuality,” with prison sentences of up to seven years for people convicted of aiding and abetting gay activities and the death penalty for repeated instances of gay sex, or any instance of same-sex relations in which one partner is under 18 or HIV-positive.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Davya
    Date posted: 11/23/2009 4:50:32 PM
    Hometown: Wynnewood, PA

    Comment:

    Uganda has been a masturbated laboratory for evangelical NGO's and their perverted dreams of "Christian" utopia. That is, the nation has systematically wiped out its native culture and traditions for the word of the white man and the power assumed with that word in dominating other Ugandans. The state is more or less a state of brainwashed fanatics who have historically killed off their neighbors in the last 40 years. It is high time we militaristically dismantle this illegitimate country, a survived abortion of Afro-Christian governance. We invaded Iraq, a legitimate dictatorship, and Afghanistan, a legitimate guerilla state, now why can't we use up our resources for a humanistically correct mission?

  • Name: Franz
    Date posted: 11/23/2009 3:35:26 PM
    Hometown: Seattle

    Comment:

    I'll bet the Ugandan President accepts filthy, colonial European and American remittances while selling his own people out.

  • Name: dieter
    Date posted: 11/23/2009 12:15:18 PM
    Hometown: sacramento

    Comment:

    let's see who's crying when we silly white folks in America stop sending those punkass Uganda kids all that money. Adopt - a - kid?..NOPE NOT any kid from uganda...racist homophobic bloated kids can starve to death for all I care. I won't send money to pay for raising little bigoted homophobes. Now every time I see a commercial asking us to send money to feed those starving kids in uganda...I will simply laugh and change the channel. then go order some take out. something tells me that when their money flow stops coming in, they will suddenly have a change of heart.

  • Name: Thaddeus
    Date posted: 11/23/2009 11:14:30 AM
    Hometown: Frisco

    Comment:

    Ten buckks says he's gay.

  • Name: alicia banks
    Date posted: 11/23/2009 10:32:00 AM
    Hometown: chicago, il

    Comment:

    millions of rabidly racist black gays pretend that homosexulity is a white disease this is global revisionist history africa is the beginning of everything, including all humanity thus, the first gays were african too funny how racist myths die so selectively, huh? shame!!! alicia banks ELOQUENT FURY



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