Comments on: Anti-Homosexuality Bill is Next on the Order of Business for Uganda’s Parliament https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/11/27/nextbilluganda/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/11/27/nextbilluganda/#comment-62963 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:12:56 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=12706#comment-62963 This is ‘technicality’, really: anyone claiming that the (‘formal’) death penalty has been dropped must remember that the Tashobya Committee has no power to remove it; that is a job for the Parliament as a whole.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/11/28/us-government-ugandas-anti-gay-legislation-still-contains-death-penalty-despite-earlier-reports/

Of course the (‘formal’) death penalty is not the issue (it never really was – it just helped to give the Bill a higher international profile). Removing it does not realistically change the Bill.

Meanwhile, ‘Pastor’ Solomon Mmale and others are hoping the Bill will go away: http://www.theafricareport.com/society-and-culture/homosexuality-bill-not-necessary-religious-groups-and-opposition-politicians.html

Mmale’s main ‘problem’ with the Bill is that the publicity it has generated has strengthened the campaign for fair treatment of LGB/T/I persons. He’s quite right – it has!

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/11/27/nextbilluganda/#comment-62962 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:15:52 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=12706#comment-62962 True, but the Bahati Bill is uniquely appalling in its all-embracing and totalitarian nature (even without the ‘formal’ death penalty). And it is not yet law …

The ‘Uganda first’ approach is a ‘worst first’ approach.

]]> By: David Hart https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/11/27/nextbilluganda/#comment-62961 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:08:49 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=12706#comment-62961 This attention to Uganda hides a larger problem. There are 78 countries that have criminalized sexual orientation; five (plus two regions in other countries) make it punishable by death. The current list: http://www.slowlyboiledfrog.com/2012/11/the-attention-paid-uganda-hides-larger.html

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/11/27/nextbilluganda/#comment-75845 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:12:56 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=12706#comment-75845 This is ‘technicality’, really: anyone claiming that the (‘formal’) death penalty has been dropped must remember that the Tashobya Committee has no power to remove it; that is a job for the Parliament as a whole.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/11/28/us-government-ugandas-anti-gay-legislation-still-contains-death-penalty-despite-earlier-reports/

Of course the (‘formal’) death penalty is not the issue (it never really was – it just helped to give the Bill a higher international profile). Removing it does not realistically change the Bill.

Meanwhile, ‘Pastor’ Solomon Mmale and others are hoping the Bill will go away: http://www.theafricareport.com/society-and-culture/homosexuality-bill-not-necessary-religious-groups-and-opposition-politicians.html

Mmale’s main ‘problem’ with the Bill is that the publicity it has generated has strengthened the campaign for fair treatment of LGB/T/I persons. He’s quite right – it has!

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/11/27/nextbilluganda/#comment-83848 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:15:52 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=12706#comment-83848 True, but the Bahati Bill is uniquely appalling in its all-embracing and totalitarian nature (even without the ‘formal’ death penalty). And it is not yet law …

The ‘Uganda first’ approach is a ‘worst first’ approach.

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