UPDATE: Please read this update in addition to this post.
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According to the UG Pulse, the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee chair Stephen Tashobya told media today that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be the subject of public hearings and debated this session.
This is consistent with most of what Tashobya has told me previously. Only one occasion has Tashobya told me that there might not be time to consider the AHB. Here is the UG Pulse’s report:
The controversial Anti Homosexuality bill is one of several bills that Members of Parliament on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee are set to debate when the House resumes business next week.
The bill, which has caused uproar from human rights activists and donors since it was tabled in Parliament in 2009, seeks to criminalize the act, with one of the controversial clauses calling for death penalty for those who are found guilty of aggravated homosexuality.
Speaking to the media at Parliament today, the committee chairman, Stephen Tashobya said though the bill has created both local and international concern, it is up to Parliament to pass the bill.
Tashobya says the committee will hold public hearings where stakeholders’ views will be heard and a report made to the House for debate and possible passing before Parliament closes the 8th Parliament.
Ndorwa West MP and mover of the bill, David Bahati welcomed the development and said he would continue to lobby Ugandans to support the bill, whose intention is to protect the Ugandan traditional family and children.
Previous posts citing Tashobya:
Uganda: Committee Chair describes Anti-Homosexuality Bill timetable – December 17, 2010
Reporters say anti-gay bill has been shelved – Ugandan politicians disagree – Jan 10, 2011
Committee chair says Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill may not be considered – March 3, 2011
Uganda’s Parliament back in session March 22. Will Anti-gay bill be debated? – March 10, 2011
Is this the lyrics of a new gay gangster rap song that you are working on?
Who said anything about ‘perception’?
Who said anything about ‘perception’?
Well, you are entitled to your intepretation of the situation on the ground. Sometimes perception is miles apart from reality. Enough said for now.
Is this the lyrics of a new gay gangster rap song that you are working on?
Perhaps he will share with us his aversions/passions. No doubt many demonizers of LGBTI Africans, Americans/others are swell folk (deep down)…it´s just that ¨gayism¨ brings out the worst in everybody–verdad?
I think I’ll not spend too much thinking about what might be ‘lurking’ deep in ‘Maazi’s’ psyche! Mind you, if he were to get rid of his homo-hate obsessions, he would probably be a very decent, intelligent guy – like many Ugandans I know.
Good LORD Richard! What could be ¨gayism¨–sounds horrid even to a gay person like me–to think it´s actually contagious? Can you get more doses of it than one may already have? I wonder if I´ve got a sufficient amount of it? Where can you buy it? Does it rub off or simply spread? Is it ¨imported¨ or home grown or both?
NO, what many these unstable bozos are afraid of is that they may have ¨Gayism¨ already, lying dorminate in their ¨after the lights go out¨ forgetter…deep down and lurking in the same dark corner or their sexual mischiefmaking that takes pleasure in thinking about Lesbians making love–their naughty/naughty silliness that inspires them to preversely try and act like/dress-up like the real men they´ve fashioned themselves into appear being! Don´t they KNOW that real MEN are emotionally stable (mostly) and don´t rush around trying to prop themselves up while snooping around in the bedrooms of other adults?
Well, you are entitled to your intepretation of the situation on the ground. Sometimes perception is miles apart from reality. Enough said for now.
Leonardo
There have been developments: the Bill’s immediate future may now ‘uncertain’ again.
‘Maazi’ has a bit of a ‘thing’ about the word ‘gayism’, by the way. Maybe he gets a tingling sensation whenever he writes it?!
Maazi NCO
Good ¨crispy¨ thinking (as usual)–perhaps the ¨GayUganda Freedom Forces¨ already took down Nsaba Buturos Fortress of Filth and Lies (you know the one disguised as a ¨Ministry¨ of Ethics and Integrity in Uganda)! Sooner or later, one by one, the superstitious looners will be exposed for the bigots and hatemongers (and corrupt politicos/religiouslike nuts) that they really are– life will no doubt be enhanced for the Ugandan people in every regard after the fall of modern day anti-lgbti witchdoctoring–it´s like drug addiction, pretending/denial are progressive and there is little healing that will come from a prognosis of terminal fear, hate and all-around dishonesty until it is arrested, exposed and treated (on a continous basis as these deep character flaws will never really go away entirely). Do what you can but the infection must be arrested at the source(s).
Perhaps he will share with us his aversions/passions. No doubt many demonizers of LGBTI Africans, Americans/others are swell folk (deep down)…it´s just that ¨gayism¨ brings out the worst in everybody–verdad?
I think I’ll not spend too much thinking about what might be ‘lurking’ deep in ‘Maazi’s’ psyche! Mind you, if he were to get rid of his homo-hate obsessions, he would probably be a very decent, intelligent guy – like many Ugandans I know.
Good LORD Richard! What could be ¨gayism¨–sounds horrid even to a gay person like me–to think it´s actually contagious? Can you get more doses of it than one may already have? I wonder if I´ve got a sufficient amount of it? Where can you buy it? Does it rub off or simply spread? Is it ¨imported¨ or home grown or both?
NO, what many these unstable bozos are afraid of is that they may have ¨Gayism¨ already, lying dorminate in their ¨after the lights go out¨ forgetter…deep down and lurking in the same dark corner or their sexual mischiefmaking that takes pleasure in thinking about Lesbians making love–their naughty/naughty silliness that inspires them to preversely try and act like/dress-up like the real men they´ve fashioned themselves into appear being! Don´t they KNOW that real MEN are emotionally stable (mostly) and don´t rush around trying to prop themselves up while snooping around in the bedrooms of other adults?
Leonardo
There have been developments: the Bill’s immediate future may now ‘uncertain’ again.
‘Maazi’ has a bit of a ‘thing’ about the word ‘gayism’, by the way. Maybe he gets a tingling sensation whenever he writes it?!
Maazi NCO
Good ¨crispy¨ thinking (as usual)–perhaps the ¨GayUganda Freedom Forces¨ already took down Nsaba Buturos Fortress of Filth and Lies (you know the one disguised as a ¨Ministry¨ of Ethics and Integrity in Uganda)! Sooner or later, one by one, the superstitious looners will be exposed for the bigots and hatemongers (and corrupt politicos/religiouslike nuts) that they really are– life will no doubt be enhanced for the Ugandan people in every regard after the fall of modern day anti-lgbti witchdoctoring–it´s like drug addiction, pretending/denial are progressive and there is little healing that will come from a prognosis of terminal fear, hate and all-around dishonesty until it is arrested, exposed and treated (on a continous basis as these deep character flaws will never really go away entirely). Do what you can but the infection must be arrested at the source(s).
Leonardo,
I detect your frustration from thousands of miles away. My advice is that you should ask United States to send its airforce on a mission to bomb and strafe the Ugandan parliament in order to “handicap the situation” (apologies to USAF Colonel Warren Throckmorton). Until I hear the announcement of “Operation GayUganda Freedom” by gayism-obssessed Obama administration, I will continue to make “modest contributions” to serious efforts to make our MPs understand that social stability is in the interests of the Ugandan State. To make these MPs understand that they should bask in the knowledge that they have the full support of the Ugandan people
Leonardo,
I detect your frustration from thousands of miles away. My advice is that you should ask United States to send its airforce on a mission to bomb and strafe the Ugandan parliament in order to “handicap the situation” (apologies to USAF Colonel Warren Throckmorton). Until I hear the announcement of “Operation GayUganda Freedom” by gayism-obssessed Obama administration, I will continue to make “modest contributions” to serious efforts to make our MPs understand that social stability is in the interests of the Ugandan State. To make these MPs understand that they should bask in the knowledge that they have the full support of the Ugandan people
All for the sake of their own arrogance–please lgbti innocents of Africa, let these bullies and cowards ¨save face¨ as they continue to tromp on the very being of many of YOU they abuse and persecute–the age old thuggery continues, no matter the mask, no matter the ¨moral¨ excuse as grown men commit vile acts in the name of a God who certainly doesn´t need their defense! Grown men who God KNOWS would be the first to compromise themselves, as they do with greed and vertical corruption in Uganda as they play un-holy games of pretend–off they go to find another dark room or corridor to make their sleazy compromises that aren´t suitable for wholesome day light (theirs or anyone elses). Bigots, cowards and thieves!
All for the sake of their own arrogance–please lgbti innocents of Africa, let these bullies and cowards ¨save face¨ as they continue to tromp on the very being of many of YOU they abuse and persecute–the age old thuggery continues, no matter the mask, no matter the ¨moral¨ excuse as grown men commit vile acts in the name of a God who certainly doesn´t need their defense! Grown men who God KNOWS would be the first to compromise themselves, as they do with greed and vertical corruption in Uganda as they play un-holy games of pretend–off they go to find another dark room or corridor to make their sleazy compromises that aren´t suitable for wholesome day light (theirs or anyone elses). Bigots, cowards and thieves!