https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:25:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-55135 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:25:11 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-55135 Didn’t express myself too well above: I didn’t mean to suggest that it was ‘ironic’ that dumping the AHB would be good for UG. I suspect more and more people in Kampala are coming round to this view.
What IS perhaps ironic is the fact that the shambolic farce that the whole saga has become is a big ‘minus’ for the anti-gay lobby.
On another note: the Marriage & Divorce Bill currently being debated makes clear that same-sex couples cannot marry. If this bill passes in its current form (which is not certain, as there are divisions in parliament over it, and the Church is not happy about it) there will then be one less ‘justification’ for Bahati.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-74181 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:25:11 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-74181 Didn’t express myself too well above: I didn’t mean to suggest that it was ‘ironic’ that dumping the AHB would be good for UG. I suspect more and more people in Kampala are coming round to this view.
What IS perhaps ironic is the fact that the shambolic farce that the whole saga has become is a big ‘minus’ for the anti-gay lobby.
On another note: the Marriage & Divorce Bill currently being debated makes clear that same-sex couples cannot marry. If this bill passes in its current form (which is not certain, as there are divisions in parliament over it, and the Church is not happy about it) there will then be one less ‘justification’ for Bahati.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-55134 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:32:23 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-55134 (I’ve just been talking with a commentator in UG. We reckon that the biggest ‘winners’ by far in this whole sorry saga are probably the LGBT ‘activists’ in ‘the West’ – the Bahati Bill has been a massive embarrassment to the ‘opposition’, and a most effective fund-raiser for ‘rights’ groups in UG. The best interests of UG would be, ironically perhaps, served by the quick ‘dispatch to the dustbin’ of the Bill followed perhaps by the decriminalization of consensual same-sex relationships, as dumping the Bill alone will no longer satisfy the Bill’s opponents. I suspect that M7 understands this. Tricky one for him?)

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-74163 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:32:23 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-74163 (I’ve just been talking with a commentator in UG. We reckon that the biggest ‘winners’ by far in this whole sorry saga are probably the LGBT ‘activists’ in ‘the West’ – the Bahati Bill has been a massive embarrassment to the ‘opposition’, and a most effective fund-raiser for ‘rights’ groups in UG. The best interests of UG would be, ironically perhaps, served by the quick ‘dispatch to the dustbin’ of the Bill followed perhaps by the decriminalization of consensual same-sex relationships, as dumping the Bill alone will no longer satisfy the Bill’s opponents. I suspect that M7 understands this. Tricky one for him?)

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-55133 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:02:13 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-55133 A couple more bills appear to have ‘leapfrogged’ Bahati.
One wonders what’s happening.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-74158 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:02:13 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-74158 A couple more bills appear to have ‘leapfrogged’ Bahati.
One wonders what’s happening.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-55132 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:05:11 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-55132 It might be that the order on ‘Notice of Business to Follow’ is not indicative of that in which the items listed will be considered, although one could be forgiven for suspected a certain amount of ‘confusion’ here (the POMB 2011 has ponce again been listed ‘ahead’ of Bahati).
The Bill has, especially since Kadaga’s ‘Christmas Promise’, become a matter of high politics, and I think we can now all safely assume that it (the Bill) is no longer of any real significance ‘on its own account’ – it’s about who will get the ‘upper hand’ in the ongoing political manoeuvres. Its continued existence a classic ‘lose-lose’ situation for Ugandans: not only does it threaten many innocent people with significant prison terms or worse; it has, in different ways, become an acute embarrassment to various of Uganda’s rulers. Let’s hope that the ‘signs of sanity’, such as the ‘minority’ report from members of the LPAC, are a prelude to a more sensible chapter in this whole sorry affair.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-74151 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:05:11 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-74151 It might be that the order on ‘Notice of Business to Follow’ is not indicative of that in which the items listed will be considered, although one could be forgiven for suspected a certain amount of ‘confusion’ here (the POMB 2011 has ponce again been listed ‘ahead’ of Bahati).
The Bill has, especially since Kadaga’s ‘Christmas Promise’, become a matter of high politics, and I think we can now all safely assume that it (the Bill) is no longer of any real significance ‘on its own account’ – it’s about who will get the ‘upper hand’ in the ongoing political manoeuvres. Its continued existence a classic ‘lose-lose’ situation for Ugandans: not only does it threaten many innocent people with significant prison terms or worse; it has, in different ways, become an acute embarrassment to various of Uganda’s rulers. Let’s hope that the ‘signs of sanity’, such as the ‘minority’ report from members of the LPAC, are a prelude to a more sensible chapter in this whole sorry affair.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-55131 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:26:28 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-55131 Oh My!

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/02/19/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-next-up-on-the-parliaments-agenda/#comment-74156 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:26:28 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14067#comment-74156 Oh My!

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