Comments on: Uganda pastors task force video response to Rick Warren

By: anteros

anteros — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:52:05 +0000

gayuganda: Exactly! That “rape a virgin/kid to cure HIV” thing is prescribed by witchdoctors in South Africa. I’ve never heard of such a thing happening in Uganda. And all the reports I heard in South Africa were of heterosexual rape. And even if it were a problem in Uganda… this bill would not help solve that problem at all. Ssempa does this sort of thing deliberately… he does it all the time to excite the public into homophobic hysteria… he tricks people into believing that he has expertise or special knowledge on the subject, then asserts the following:

homosexuality = anal sex (taboo) = male rape = infections = evil = ungodly = unAfrican = western perversion = “recruitment” of kids into homosexuality = male prostitution

I hope he gets all the exposure he craves, that way people will see through his lies.

By: gayuganda

gayuganda — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:56:17 +0000

There is method to his lies. Sylvia Tamale, the law prof has been consistent in her challenge of this contention. I researched what she was saying, and got the facts. He is in contact with Tamale. And, if he wasnt, he would at least have asked a lawyer to research the facts. He has continued, persisted in saying the same thing.

But, it is not only this. For many of the things he says, Ssempa takes a bit of truth, and then magnifies it as a lie.

For example, when he talks about virgin rape as a cure for HIV, that has been reported. BUT it is reported in South Africa. Not in Uganda. He knows what he is talking about, but he twists the facts to fit his fantasies. And, he is charismatic, and tends to overwhelm a debate with his voice and his emotional appeal.

He lies. Consistently, constantly. I have come to expect it of him. But, many people believe the half truths that he sells as gospel.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:03:29 +0000

Personally, I think he’s lying. It’s a feeling I get. There’s method to it.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:00:36 +0000

gayuganda,

Thanks. Will check out the link in the morning. It’s just after official ‘New Years’ here and I just got home.

My current guess is that the amendments (one of which I quoted earlier) are common knowledge but that Ssempa is slipping past the truth by referring to–and quoting from–the old Penal Code and ignoring the amendments.

I’ve known people to play such games and then convince themselves that they aren’t really lying but, as Christians so often say, God sees the heart. If his intent is to deceive then he is deserving of God’s judgement AND that of his fellow believers. I detest ‘spin’ no matter which side is playing it.

Thanks for the link. Happy New Year to you and to all who visit here.

By: gayuganda

gayuganda — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:49:56 +0000

Eddy, I started off writing that I dont have any references, then checked what I have and found, oh yes, I do have them, and, there is the sections 140 and 140something that you are talking about. The Penal Code Act is here Now, I am given to understand by Dr Tamale, a law prof at the University here, that this is the old Penal Code Act, and that there were ammendments to it. But, at least you can go through it and see what was before.