NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY & SEXUAL ABUSES IN UGANDA

P. O. Box 11902 Kampala, Uganda

26th November 2010

Press release

LET HOMOSEXUALS AND THEIR ACTIVISTS STOP DECEIVING FOREIGNERS

Since the introduction of the much controversial anti homosexuality bill, 2009, homosexuals worldwide have condemned Uganda for witch hunting homosexuals. When the Rolling Stone weekly started publishing their pictures already posted on the internet and appearing in various media, they made noise and sued it. And now foreign media and homosexuals are here to advance their cause, blackmailing our government, misinforming the world about the situation on the ground.

We had always respected foreign media as accurate but now realize that it is prone to manipulation and abuse. What has featured are lies fed to the world which we want to clear as follows:

1. Persecuting homosexuals: It is wrong and totally unfounded to make such a claim and publish it in any form. Let all those claiming persecution adduce empirical evidence to the effect. I, Pr Martin Sempa and others in our team have on many occasions debated with homosexuals at public forums, even before the media and in the presence of the Police, intelligence and other agencies. None of the homos has ever been harassed. Where on earth do they get such brutalization? I need to assure the world as follows:

• No homosexual has been persecuted. Our campaign focuses on criminals who target little children below the 18 year age of consent, especially children in schools. For those who have chosen to take that sexual route, we call upon to quit.

• No homosexual has been raped, abused or killed by mobs because of hatred. In fact, many relatives of homosexuals have bleeding hearts that their loved ones are indulging.

• We have parents of homosexuals who have been mistreated by homosexuals.

• On the contrary, we have homosexuals using state machinery to harass their victims and the good Samaritans. This has happened in the Pr Kitaka, Pr Kiwewesi, Pr Kayanja and other homo cases.

• Where victims have come up to report, they have been persecuted, framed and arrested, or their offenders have been alerted to take pre-emptive action, or even to flee.

Therefore, blacklisting homos is not bad since even in countries like the USA, Britain, Netherlands, etc wanted criminals are listed even if they haven’t harmed anyone. In Uganda, homosexuality is an offense against the order of nature. People ought to know who these homosexuals are lest they took advantage of little children. I doubt there is a country that can entertain criminals on its territory.

2. Homosexuals are indeed satisfying their homosexuality urge on under-age children who cannot consent to the act. Where on earth can such be tolerated? Isn’t the Catholic Church worldwide in trouble because of such acts by it priests? Claiming that pedophilia is different from homosexuality is just an attempt to mislead the public away from the issue. When a man always sodomizes minors, and is regarded as a pedophile, it doesn’t remove the fact that the action qualifies him / her for a homosexual.

3. We demand that Juliet Mukasa (Victor Mukasa) tells the world in which ‘American-style Pentecostal’ church she was striped naked by a pastor and his male assistants during a deliverance prayer session at the alter, then carried into a room, locked up and gang raped for a week, as she told Jeff Sharlet and the story featured in Harpers Magazine, Sept 2010. See excerpts attached.

Her story is a lie intended to win sympathy of rich homosexuals to give her money and other opportunities.

Just like for Victor Mukasa, homosexuality is a business and lucrative job for many homosexual activists living in Uganda where economic opportunities are few and highly competitive. It also gives many opportunities to hook up with rich homosexuals worldwide who can help them to get the almost impossible Western Visas. To beat the odds therefore, many people fake up all sorts of stories and it doesn’t matter even if they tarnish the image of their country.

To reverse such a scenario:

• Let Western governments remove stringent visa requirements for Ugandans and see if many people will still call themselves homosexuals.

• Let people be financially empowered to be able to meet their financial needs.

4. It is wrong to claim that I, Pr Sempa, Kyazze and Kaira were investigated for accusing Pr Kayanja Robert of homosexuality. It is not us who accused him. It is the young men who accused him of sodomizing them and the Police killed their cases and wrongly turned against us and them, detaining some. But they have not accused any of us in that matter. They simply framed up Pr Kyazze and Kaira. We will win that case.

Finally, we appeal to all Ugandan and international homosexual communities and their sympathizers in the media to stop deceiving the world about the situation on the ground.

In NCAHSAU, we must continue to stand for the voiceless children taken advantage of during their times of need and later harassed by homosexuals no matter what it costs.

For God and our country.

Pr Moses Solomon Male – Leader

Tel 256-772-479386 / 256-702-196511 malearch@yahoo.com

Excerpts from Jeff Sharlet’s article, STRAIGHT MAN’S BURDEN

The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions

That featured in Harpers Magazine of September 2010

Juliet Mukasa raped in a Pentecostal Church

“Like Blessed, Juliet Mukasa knew as a child that she was attracted to childrenof the same sex. And like Blessed she’d been raised Catholic but had joined an American-style Pentecostal church, hoping that in the music and the dancing and the Holy Ghost—the ecstasy— she would fi nd the resolution of her desires. But Juliet Mukasa was not as skilled as Blessed at leading two lives. Dressed like a girl, she couldn’t think. A pastor determined that she was possessed by a “male spirit” and asked his flock to help him heal her. As women in the pews swayed and sang for Mukasa’s liberation, the exorcism took place at the altar, boys and men from the church laying on hands and speaking in tongues. They took her arms, gently then firmly, and stripped her. Slowly, garment by garment, praying over each piece of demonically polluted cloth. She’d bound her breasts. They bared them. “I cried, and every time I cried they would call it ‘liberation.’ ” They slapped her, but it was holy slapping, and when she stood before them naked, the men’s hands roaming over her and then inside, they said that was holy too.

Then they locked her in a room and raped her. For a week. This is considered a corrective; a medical procedure, really; a cure. When it was all over, the pastor declared that the church had freed Mukasa. Maybe, in a sense, it had. Victor Mukasa no longer believed there was a demon inside him. The demons were in the church.

Mukasa became a man and an activist, determined to prevent what had happened to him from happening again. In 2003, he cofounded Freedom and Roam Uganda, an organization for lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex human rights. In 2005, Ugandan police, led by government officials, raided his house. They didn’t find him. But a friend, Yvonne Oyoo, was there. They took her to the station. You look like a man, they said. We’re going to prove you’re a woman. They stripped her, fondled her breasts.

Mukasa fled. But in hiding and then in exile, he planned. The plan wasn’t lesbian, it wasn’t gay, it was . . . human, Blessed would say. It was a citizen’s plan: Mukasa sued, and never was a lawsuit more like a gift of the spirit, the romance of the rule of law.”

I have always been confused about the idea of “exporting homophobia” that Mr. Sharlett and the NYT december piece on the bill uses… though I don’t dismiss it as untrue… any idea of when this process of export began? What role did Livley play in this process? I have found records of his ties with Uganda as early as 2002, but what other actors have worked to export American culture wars in Uganda?

Also, I’m wondering if you have read Philip Jenkins’ “<a href="”>Unholy Communion: The African War Over Homosexuality” in The New Republic from 2007, which would seem to contradict the idea of exporting. What do you think?

The vast vast majority of victims of child abuse (in UG, as elsewhere) are girls; the vast vast majority of gay people do not abuse children.

Anyone can cite the odd horrible case (often only alleged, often involving some kind of so-called ‘pastor’, it would seem) – I’m afraid that means little in terms of political propaganda, dreadful though every true case of child sexual abuse is (and I am myself aware of one such alleged case in UG – but I can’t talk about that, of course).

The vast vast majority of victims of child abuse (in UG, as elsewhere) are girls; the vast vast majority of gay people do not abuse children.

Anyone can cite the odd horrible case (often only alleged, often involving some kind of so-called ‘pastor’, it would seem) – I’m afraid that means little in terms of political propaganda, dreadful though every true case of child sexual abuse is (and I am myself aware of one such alleged case in UG – but I can’t talk about that, of course).