In what is otherwise a report on a tiny sect from the US in Uganda, the AOL News mischaracterizes the status of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. With the reporting from CNN, etc., it is difficult to see how this reporter missed it.
Jenkins’ view breaks from that of the American Christian evangelicals who arrived in Uganda last year claiming homosexuals were conspiring against the traditional African family. That helped whip up anti-homosexual hysteria in Uganda and led to the drafting of anti-homosexual legislation, which originally called for the death penalty for homosexual offenders.
In May, a government committee determined that Uganda’s anti-gay bill possessed “technical defects in form and content,” and anti-homosexuality fervor has quieted considerably since then.
Not so. To several news outlets as well as here, bill sponsor David Bahati and most recently Minister of Ethics and Integrity Nsaba Buturo both say the bill is on deck for action and still contains the death penalty.
I can’t provide any references off the top of my head but remember reading some time back that the upper eschelon of AOL is now inhabited by a highly conservative element. What I read implied that any adult material might be banned from their servers.
AOL’s record on these issues is not good (even worse than their record in general). Any idea who authored this?
You are not by any chance suggesting that AOL chief executives are in an unholy alliance with Giles Muhame’s Rolling Stone? I wouldn’t put it past euro-american gay propagandists to make this extremely unlikely connection between the American media corporation and the minor Ugandan tabloid .
David Roberts,
I’ve been noticing the same thing with AOL. What is going on with them? They seem to be either ignorant of the facts, or for some reason feel the need to highlight a good deal of anti-gay information. This surprises me and makes me wonder who is driving this.
You are not by any chance suggesting that AOL chief executives are in an unholy alliance with Giles Muhame’s Rolling Stone? I wouldn’t put it past euro-american gay propagandists to make this extremely unlikely connection between the American media corporation and the minor Ugandan tabloid .
I can’t provide any references off the top of my head but remember reading some time back that the upper eschelon of AOL is now inhabited by a highly conservative element. What I read implied that any adult material might be banned from their servers.
David Roberts,
I’ve been noticing the same thing with AOL. What is going on with them? They seem to be either ignorant of the facts, or for some reason feel the need to highlight a good deal of anti-gay information. This surprises me and makes me wonder who is driving this.
AOL’s record on these issues is not good (even worse than their record in general). Any idea who authored this?