Comments on: International Federation of Social Workers denounce Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:44:27 +0000

As Tiger Woods and Jesse James have recently illustrated, it is legal in the US to ruin one’s life and marriage with multiple concurrent partners. One may without legal penalty maintain a swinging lifestyle here. I suppose if one tried to pass these relationships off as multiple marriages or cohabitations, then one might run afoul of polygamy statutes and one may not legally consumate these relationships in a marriage. However, in contrast, it is illegal to engage in private consensual same-sex relations in Uganda. Under the AHB, it will be illegal for SSA people to touch each other.

By: Maazi N.C.O

Maazi N.C.O — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:16:31 +0000

CORRECTION:

Sorry, the first line of my rejoinder should read:

Well, your logic CAN be applied equally to polygamy which remains criminalised as “Bigamy” in the West…

By: Maazi N.C.O

Maazi N.C.O — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:13:42 +0000

Warren, you wrote the following, and I quote :

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“One does not need to agree with homosexual behavior as a moral good in order to advocate for the essential humanity and freedom to make moral choices about adult consensual behavior without the coercion of the state”

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Well, your logic an be applied equally to polygamy which remains criminalised as “Bigamy” in the West. Why not apply your libertarian viewpoint on this issue which is of crucial importance to many African people. Why should consenting relations between a man and two women be criminal offence eh? Why can’t the USA allow people to make moral choices in the State of Utah on the issue of polygamy eh? why state coercion?

We will consider the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality as soon as you guys decriminalize polygamy which is derogatively referred to as Bigamy in your homeland.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Maazi – I see the advocacy as pro-image of God.

There are significant differences between pedophilia/bestiality and attractions to adult humans. Your analogy misses these differences. Often these analogies allow the person making them to see the same-sex attracted person as less than worthy of respect as an image bearer of God.

One does not need to agree with homosexual behavior as a moral good in order to advocate for the essential humanity and freedom to make moral choices about adult consensual behavior without the coercion of the state.

By: Maazi N.C.O

Maazi N.C.O — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:50:30 +0000

Warren, we are probably never going to agree on this issue. However let me state that Gays are attracted to the same sex as much as paedophiles are attracted to children and bestialists to animals. I do not see you or the others call for understanding for paedophiles/bestialists on grounds that their sexual orientation is “occuring naturally to them”. May be, it is because the West has not yet got round to legalising these reviled vices. I am sure that 30 to 40 years down the line when the bestialists have managed to raise a good lobby group and campaign successfully for acceptance and decriminalization in the West, then Euro-American liberals will appear in Africa to advocate the protection of people’s “human rights” to be attracted to their pet dogs. You are mistaken if you think we will sit back passively and allow our nation to be re-modelled as an exotic Gay Tourist Paradise for westerners. The revised Bill shall become law regardless of your pro-gay advocacy.