Comments on: Uganda Television Reports on Anti-Homosexuality Bill; Bahati talks to the press https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/02/08/uganda-television-reports-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-bahati-talks-to-the-press/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 18:49:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/02/08/uganda-television-reports-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-bahati-talks-to-the-press/#comment-84893 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:49:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11111#comment-84893 From the Guardian article:

‘ “We are reducing the prison sentences to two to seven years. Even the life imprisonment is not there,” [Bahati] told the Guardian by telephone from Uganda, adding that the bill would take into account what “other people say”. ‘

So where’s the draft proposal for this? And does this ‘oh-so-generous gesture’ also relate to sexual assault? (Two to seven years for raping a child seems pretty feeble to me … what’s happened to this ‘protecting children’ stuff all of a sudden? Answer: It was never part of the programme in the first pace.)

Also from the article:-

‘ “It was really scary and traumatising, seeing MPs from the opposition camp and the incumbent camp cheering the bill and calling it ‘our bill’,” said Onziema, who is transgender. ‘

Onziema is very courageous. I take my hat off to her – I really do.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/02/08/uganda-television-reports-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-bahati-talks-to-the-press/#comment-59925 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:15:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11111#comment-59925 From the Guardian article:

‘ “We are reducing the prison sentences to two to seven years. Even the life imprisonment is not there,” [Bahati] told the Guardian by telephone from Uganda, adding that the bill would take into account what “other people say”. ‘

So where’s the draft proposal for this? And does this ‘oh-so-generous gesture’ also relate to sexual assault? (Two to seven years for raping a child seems pretty feeble to me … what’s happened to this ‘protecting children’ stuff all of a sudden? Answer: It was never part of the programme in the first pace.)

Also from the article:-

‘ “It was really scary and traumatising, seeing MPs from the opposition camp and the incumbent camp cheering the bill and calling it ‘our bill’,” said Onziema, who is transgender. ‘

Onziema is very courageous. I take my hat off to her – I really do.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/02/08/uganda-television-reports-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-bahati-talks-to-the-press/#comment-59924 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:35:27 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11111#comment-59924 By the way, I would say a big “WELL DONE NTV!” The piece indicates very effectively the full horror of Bahati’s proposals, and nails the lie that ‘protecting children’ is the aim of the Bill.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/02/08/uganda-television-reports-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-bahati-talks-to-the-press/#comment-59923 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:14:22 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11111#comment-59923 Bahati said this kind of thing last spring, but then Tashobya-Odonga (those two are both on the LPAC) just fiddled with words and took out the bits the could have never been enforced anyway.

Warren is quite right: words are just words … and, in these kinds of situation, often have little or nothing to do with (intended) deeds.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/02/08/uganda-television-reports-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-bahati-talks-to-the-press/#comment-91592 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:35:27 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11111#comment-91592 By the way, I would say a big “WELL DONE NTV!” The piece indicates very effectively the full horror of Bahati’s proposals, and nails the lie that ‘protecting children’ is the aim of the Bill.

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