Comments on: Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill: Hearings may be happening now

By: paul canning

paul canning — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:03:42 +0000

Been alerted that it is listed on Parliament website http://bit.ly/jIUZSo
Trying to raise alarm, not hopeful (the MSM told everyone it’s done :{ … )

By: Wendy Leigh

Wendy Leigh — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:17:38 +0000

The words of the petition signed by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986, calls the Ugandan Parliament and the Ugandan people to the high ground in this matter.
We wish to state emphatically that homosexuality is neither a sin nor a social or cultural construct. It is a biological given. Homosexuals are human beings like everybody else. Scientific research has been helpful in clearing the fog of ignorance entrenched by some religious texts in regards to homosexuality. Our opinions of homosexuality must change for the better just as our opinion of slavery has changed even though it was endorsed by those same religious texts. All violence against gays and people deemed to be gay in Africa must cease forthwith…
We also call on African governments to learn from the South African example by expunging from their laws all provisions that criminalize homosexuality or treat homosexuals as unworthy of the same rights and entitlements as other citizens. African states must protect the rights of their citizens to freedom and dignity. Homosexuals must not be denied these rights.
God bless Uganda.

By: Wendy Leigh

Wendy Leigh — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:02:39 +0000

Psychological Society of South Africa
The scientific fields devoted to mental health and well-being, including psychiatry, psychology and sociology, do not consider homosexual orientation to be a disorder, but rather view it as a naturally occurring variation of normal human sexuality. Research and clinical practice indicates that homosexual people have an overall potential to contribute to society similar to that of heterosexual people and that they pose no greater risk to children than do heterosexual people.
While the proposed bill cites “…the need to protect the children and youths of Uganda…” as justification, there is no credible, reliable evidence that the measures contained in the bill will achieve that outcome. Research and clinical practice instead indicates that the abuse of human rights and fundamental freedoms embodied in the bill, and the state sponsored discrimination and affronts to basic human dignity it mandates, would instead result in profound physical and psychological harms to the already vulnerable lesbian, gay and bisexual youth in the very population the legislation claims to protect.
On the grounds outlined in this statement, the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) therefore joins the international community in strongly opposing the proposed anti-homosexuality legislation. The PsySSA joins in the call for Ugandan leaders to abandon or defeat the bill, and instead to join the trend in the international community of decriminalising homosexuality.

By: Wendy Leigh

Wendy Leigh — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:17:38 +0000

By: Wendy Leigh

Wendy Leigh — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:02:39 +0000