Comments on: US State Department condemns Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/05/12/us-state-department-condemns-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 17:59:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Maazi NCO https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/05/12/us-state-department-condemns-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill/#comment-77869 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:59:12 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9291#comment-77869

We must stop things getting worse before we can start helping them to get better.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. If Burundi and Malawi are anything to go by, then you people are failing miserably. The fact is that if a harsh anti-gay law is proposed today in Saudi Arabia, opposition to it would be restricted to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and a bevy of euro-american gay lobby groups. There would be stony silence from the US government and most EU States, especially the United Kingdom.

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US State Department condemns Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Of course. I am sure there is a “condemn-anti-gay-laws” template somewhere in the State Department with space to fill in the name of any offending African State before dessemination to the media. No hope that UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc, etc, will get the State Department template beginning with the declaration—-“We condemn the odious….blah, blah, blah….”

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/05/12/us-state-department-condemns-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill/#comment-77855 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:59:11 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9291#comment-77855 And on the subject of ‘general standards’: the hatred, lies and violent malice of Bahati, Ssempa and co. are shaming. You’ve told a few little ‘porkies’ yourself (you cannot prove this systematic ‘recruitment’, can you? you just take refuge in rhetoric).

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/05/12/us-state-department-condemns-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill/#comment-77859 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:59:11 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9291#comment-77859 Jeff
I suspect that most of the (thoroughly well deserved) ‘pressure’ is being applied ‘behind the scenes’. There has been a report of the EU demarche in the UK gay press (and I know it has been initiated) – Warren posted this on an earlier segment – although the general press in the UK has been more circumspect. The mood in the UK Foreign Ministry can, as far as I can tell, best be described as ‘grim’ and ‘stern’ (this latest outrage comes on top of other things, of course), though anything that has been said to me personally is couched in the usual diplomatic language (of course). I’m sure that there will be ‘consequences’ if the Bill is enacted, but the nature of these has not yet been determined.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/05/12/us-state-department-condemns-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill/#comment-77861 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:59:11 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9291#comment-77861 ‘Maazi’
As I’ve explained to you before, we are talking here about new proposals that offend generally-accepted standards. We must stop things getting worse before we can start helping them to get better.

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