The Ugandan 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009' - Ctrl.Alt.Shift

I still can't quite come to terms with the fact that it may soon be illegal for gays to have sex in Uganda... George Michael, Graham Norton, Paul O'Grady and the rest would be throwing a fit had an 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' been proposed in the UK. But over in the African nation, one too many are supportive of the bill, which promises to legally put to death any man on man, woman on woman etc action. Discrimination of the sort is just intolerable in my books - the punishment of a death sentence is merely unbelievable.



This stigma surrounding homosexuals is no more aided by the ridiculous myth that having sex with babies can cure HIV... I spoke to my colleague from South Africa who claimed this was believed in the past by some supersticious persons, but has since become MYTH (i.e. NOT FACT) today. However, this is grasped upon as a reason to explain a so-called (without statistical backing) spike of child defilement by gay men - and so comes the Ugandan government's answer - alas, save the children, lock up the fags, and throw away their handbags (apologies, I'm only trying to stress their ignorance). Oh, and last time I checked, child rape was not only committed by homosexuals; so now what - remove all sexual bits and bobs of the bod? National genital mutilation? Your move Uganda. Here's my response to this madness in a feature for Ctrl.Alt.Shift:

Feature: Child Rape Was Not Invented By Gays
Someone please tell me what rape (of any kind) and paedophilia has to do with homosexuality? It’s great, no doubt, that the sectors of the Ugandan press are raising more and more awareness of rape crimes (it’s a serious subject of course). But if you’re going to enforce an “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009” to counteract sexual abuse being perpetrated by homosexuals, you might as well put in an “Anti-Heterosexuality Bill” to put a chastity belt on all the straight people in the country looking to take advantage of their opposite sex. Make Uganda a “No-Sex” zone, and be done with sexual abuse altogether, because trust me, it happens, no matter what side of the field your people are playing on.



Provide better education, encourage a ‘nuclear’ family household, counselling, an NSPCC type vehicle – all pieces of a grand puzzle which sets out that difficult, but vital purpose of protecting all children from any sort of abuse. But why blame it all on the gays!? I just can’t comprehend how that is supposed to prevent the thousands of child defilement cases occurring in Uganda every year. I’m not saying wave the rainbow flag, but burning it won’t change much.

Okay, there is a myth, the biggest bulls**t myth I’ve ever heard, but a powerful one nonetheless – that having sex with a young child can “cleanse” one of HIV. But it is just as greater MYTH that this has lead to a rise in child rape by HIV-positive men. Where are the stats to support this? And what exactly are the origins of this baby HIV-cleansing myth? I don’t know what village idiot came up with it, but gay person or not, if 16 children were sexually abused daily in the first six months of 2009 (according to the African Network for Prevention against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) Uganda Chapter) - the fault does not lie with homosexuals – the fault lies with the Ugandan government, media, and education system; who all fail to make clear that sex with a baby is the HIV miracle cure...

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