Comments on: Uganda govt says Anti-Homosexuality Bill not necessary; fate in Parliament unclear – Updated

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:49:32 +0000

I just laughed when Bahitler was talking about ‘counselling and caring’ – ‘machete-style’ is presumably what he had in mind! (He did look peeved in that clip.)
It will be interesting to see what the Sexual Offences (Amendment0 Bill contains. Will it seek to make all sexual offences ‘gender-neutral’, or will it be a ‘Bahati’s back door’ (so to speak!).

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:49:32 +0000

If this is true, then it would be useful if Tashobya’s committee (which includes the Lord Mayor designate of Kampala – someone who is allegedly opposed to the Bill on jurisprudential grounds) were to come to the same conclusion. To this end, it is important that opponents of the Bill, both inside and outside Uganda, continue to put their arguments to Tashobya.
http://canyonwalkerconnections.com/2011/03/stop-the-ugandan-anti-homosexuality-bill-from-a-vote/

By: David Roberts

David Roberts — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:49:32 +0000

One could get dizzy watching the status of this bill.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:31:31 +0000

@ David : One cannot discount the possibility that what is happening is designed to make us ‘dizzy’, and we should remain ‘on full alert’.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:31:31 +0000

I feel less dizzy, only because people have been on full alert and helped move us all into the real issues of safety and respect and tolerance on this issue.
Watched the Vanguard: Missionaries of Hate documentary last night. It could not exist without all the efforts here, at Ex-gaywatch, at Box Turtle Bulletin, TWO and Rachel Maddow.
My prayer is that Evangelicals and Fundamentalists will be given more support in their skepticism of people like Bahati, Lively and Fischer. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, because of several generations of “anti-intellectual” indoctrination are ripe for the simplistic exploitation and manipulation of such men.