Comments on: “Gay Genocide” in Uganda… WTF!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:54:30 +0000

Unfortunately being part of the gay and extended communities is one of the last accepted prejudices in the world (with exception to womens’ rights in some countries, which are devastatingly low to say the least). The fact that this sort of thing is happening IS giving rise to comparison to ‘Witch hunts’. I am sad to think of where else this kind of fear mongering can spread throughout the world to become legal to hunt and kill those in the LGBT community. This is disgusting and will be a hard-won fight in my lifetime. This is my (our) generation’s battle to win; why we have to fight for human rights is astounding, as they are BORN rights. Still amazing that man can take away his own rights time and time again…we NEVER learn as a race- the human race.

By: Regina Foster

Regina Foster — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:20:55 +0000

I completely agree. For many years missionaries have spread their version of “right” to the expense of the culture and rights of indigenous people around the world. There’s a lot of people to blame here but in 2009, I find it reprehensible after the Human Rights Campaign and hundreds of other organizations have worked so ardently to identify and ease suffering for all people that a law like this can even be considered.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:36:04 +0000

Hi Regina, sorry I can’t make the show from England, but just wanted to add an angle to the story. Of course this is totally wrong, and cannot be justified. But… in the west we have to remember who planted the homophobic seeds in some countries throughout the world… Christian missionaries who spread the “good” word to indigenous cultures are having their own dogma bite back what is now western liberalism. It doesn’t make it right, but we can’t simply cast blame without looking out our part in the views.