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=6.8.3 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.

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