Comments on: Uganda Human Rights Coalition Opposes the Anti-Homosexuality Bill

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:27:29 +0000

POINT OF CORRECTION: gay marriage is actually DE JURE not recognized in Uganda (this has been the case since 2005). Thus, bahatites who pretend that their ‘legislative rottweiler’ has anything whatever to do with gay marriage are just plain liars.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:31:55 +0000

Be that as it may, Patrcoles, the fact is the Bahati Bill represents an full-on attack on the human right of gays to live free from violence and unjust treatment under criminal law.

When supporters of the Bill talk about gay marriage, they are throwing sand in our faces. The Bill has nothing to do with gay marriage (which is de facto not legal in Uganda in any case); it is an attack on the most fundamental human rights that you and I take for granted.

By: Patrocles

Patrocles — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:30:59 +0000

Problem is, that “Human Rights” haven’t the ring or sound they had when the U.N. were founded. That’s the consequence of long-time abuse. The vocable “human rights” has been used for all sorts of claims which had no appeal to reason. And moreover “human rights” have become a pretext for monetary or military intervention in foreign nations.

When rhetorical means become inflated, they lose value.

Telling people that “gays have a human right to live” might have had a powerful effect in former times. Nowadays people are used to hear that “gays have a human right to marry”. So if they hear that “gays have a human right to live”, will they feel that it’s more important or more noncontroversial?

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:27:29 +0000

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:31:55 +0000

Be that as it may, Patrcoles, the fact is the Bahati Bill represents an full-on attack on the human right of gays to live free from violence and unjust treatment under criminal law.