In March of this year (2009) I had the privilege of addressing members of the Ugandan parliament in their national assembly hall when the anti-homosexuality law was just being considered. I urged them to pattern their bill on some American laws regarding alcoholism and drug abuse. I cited my own pre-Christian experience being arrested for drunk driving. I was given and chose the option of therapy which turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life. I also cited the policy in some U.S. jurisdictions regarding marijuana. Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and
All of my suggestions were ignored (despite which fact I am being blamed for the proposed law as written by certain major media outlets and the “gay” blogosphere.) Nevertheless, I commend the courage of the Ugandan people.
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At the risk of a Godwin, we need a Nuremberg for people who aid, abet, encourage give comfort to or in any way express support for the murdrous policies of Uganda towrds is gay citizens. Their is blood on such hands.
Defend the family indeed! By killing off members of families, such as gay people. Gay proplr don't spring up out of nothing. So why not extend the murder by killing the families that produce gays. Obviously they must be tainted to do so, so it seems logical. /bitter sarcasm.
Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and discourages non-users from starting
Since when? And do you really think that laws against homosexuality will keep people from being gay? It's never worked anywhere and has only served to ruin people's lives (or in some cases ended them).
"Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and discourages non-users from starting..."
Riiiiiight. What little fantasy world is he living in? The laws have never...NEVER ...kept people from going against laws no matter how right or wrong they may be. Murder still happens, people still use drugs, and so on.
"All of my suggestions were ignored (despite which fact I am being blamed for the proposed law as written by certain major media outlets and the “gay” blogosphere.) Nevertheless, I commend the courage of the Ugandan people."
I condemn your cowardice in denying your part in creating this law when public opinioin turned strongly against you.
No peer-reviewed scientific research has ever supported the idea that homosexuality is remotely comparable to drug or alcohol addiction. I can well imagine, however, that the Ugandan parliament would have been enchanted to hear from you rather than from someone who actually knows what they're talking about, because obviously they would rather not then be embarrassed by actual experts ripping their government-prescribed homophobia apart.
I wonder if Scott Lively told them that alcoholism and drug abuse were punishable by death?
Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and discourages non-users from starting
And that's how we won the War on Drugs, folks.
I am being blamed for the proposed law as written by certain major media outlets and the “gay” blogosphere.
Then you should not have gone to Uganda in the first place. You and your anti-gay propaganda inspired the writing of that Anti-Homosexuality Bill. You can't escape that fact.
I had the privilege of addressing members of the Ugandan parliament in their national assembly hall ... All of my suggestions were ignored
What? The darky baboon savages didn't heed the superior whitey Lord and say "yisser master"? How dare they?!
I bet you felt so comfortable in their midst. All those shiny white teeth blinking at you.
Did you speak extra slowly?
Let me guess: after leaving the country you were relieved not to have landed in a cooking pot, right?
"Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and discourages non-users from starting, even while the law itself is very lightly enforced, if at all."
In what universe exactly?
@Boromir
"Gay was illegal (for men) until 1964 (IIRC) in the UK. Never stopped anybody."
Remember Alan Turing?
"Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, just over two weeks before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined that his death was suicide; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental. On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way he was treated.""
There is a very significant difference between alcoholism and drug abuse on one side, and homosexuality on the other side. Alcoholism and drug abuse are substance abuses which you contract and can be cured from. Homosexuality is a trait you're born with and which you can't be cured from, any more than you can cure from being tall or left-handed.
We in Sweden also actively promote the marriage model, as in all consenting adult couples are able to marry each other (as long as they are not married to someone else), regardless of gender, skin-tone, social status, age (as long as you’re adult) and ethnicity.
Getting involved in a process can cause you to be blamed for the outcome, regardless of whether you promoted or protested the alternative that was ultimately chosen. That comes with the territory, stupid.
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