[url=http://www.thenation.com/blog/158080/targeted-ugandan-gay-activist-murdered]The Nation[/url]
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[release]It worked. Last fall a Ugandan tabloid splashed the headline “100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos” next to his picture, and called for the murder of all Ugandan queers. Yesterday David Kato was found beaten to death in his home in Mukono, Kampala.
The press statement from Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), where Kato, one of his country’s best-known human rights activists, worked as an advocacy officer, noted that “David’s death comes directly after the Supreme Court of Uganda ruled that people must stop inciting violence against homosexuals and must respect the right to privacy and human dignity” in response to Kato’s suit against the tabloid earlier this month. Which just goes to show that people who bludgeon gay men to death don’t spend a fuck of a lot of time pondering the law.
They may not even read tabloids. But it’s almost certain that they pick up on the steady beat of state sanctioned full-on hatred for LGBT people that pervades Ugandan culture, where Kato was a leading voice against the country’s notorious “Anti-Homosexuality Bill,” also known as the "Kill the Gays" bill. As Nation Institute Fellow Jeff Sharlet notes, the bill’s provisions include “up to three years in prison for failing to report a homosexual; seven years for ‘promotion’; life imprisonment for a single homosexual act; and for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ (which includes gay sex while HIV-positive, gay sex with a disabled person, or, if you’re a recidivist, gay sex with anyone—marking the criminal as a ‘serial offender’), death.”
It was introduced in 2009 by a member of parliament named David Bahati, whom Sharlet identifies as a “rising star” in the powerful American evangelical movement known as The Family. And it was written, and heavily promoted, with the help of three American evangelicals who toured Uganda in March of that year. These self-described “experts,” goaded packed houses of Ugandans to persecute LGBT people by feeding them the usual garbage—no longer quite so salable in the United States—about LGBT people undermining family values, along with the usual claims about gay men preying on teenage boys.
In short, while only one person is likely to be held responsible for Kato’s murder—and only then if we are very, very, very lucky, given the foul history between Uganda’s police and its LGBT community—there’s a long line of people who helped create a climate where the act could be considered a blow for the common good. As Val Kalende, the board chair at Freedom and Roam Uganda, said: “David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by US Evangelicals in 2009. The Ugandan Government and the so-called US Evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood!”
Don’t hold your breath. [/release]
Shit...
It's just going to get much worse from here.
Oh what the fuck Uganda fuck you.
Way to go Uganda. Way to go.
Disgusting; even if the "...Supreme Court of Uganda ruled that people must stop inciting violence against homosexuals and must respect the right to privacy and human dignity..." it will just continue, anti-homosexual campaigns will scar Uganda.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnrLt3VuSM[/media]
Uganda in a nutshell.
When will Uganda realise that it doesn't matter if people eat da poo poo
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w[/media]
[editline]28th January 2011[/editline]
Old, but still.
this is pretty terrible. fabulous shirt though.
Africa is such a fucked up place. People are even scared to go there to fucking help.
Oh god this is disgusting.
What happened to that form that showed lobbying efforts from US church groups in Uganda? Every one on that form should be declared a terrorist organization.
After watching that video I dunno who's side I'm on in Africa :3:
[QUOTE=ItchyBarracuda;27719025]After watching that video I dunno who's side I'm on in Africa :3:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, those gentlemen make a very good point.
wow uganda is such a civilized country
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Coffee;27718181][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnrLt3VuSM[/media]
Uganda in a nutshell.[/QUOTE]
what a well reasoned argument
Uganda will be fucked for this
This is all Martin SSempa's fault. How much worse is this going to get? People like him need to realize that if The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is passed, then they have official become an enemy.
Awful, terrible country, and it's largely the fault of The Family. Yet I guarantee you nothing will come of it whatsoever, at least in America. People will wring their hands, say how bad it is, and do nothing to hold the people who caused it accountable.
send someone to arrest the fucking evangelicals then back the pro-gay movement
They really can't get much worse.
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;27719814]They really can't get much worse.[/QUOTE]
Things can always get worse :smith:
The UN is completely okay with this murder, too. :smith:
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;27781834]The UN is completely okay with this murder, too. :smith:[/QUOTE]
Only reason that vote passed is because there are more stupid countries than non-stupid ones
[QUOTE=Coffee;27718181][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnrLt3VuSM[/media]
Uganda in a nutshell.[/QUOTE]
His stupidity always makes me laugh.
[QUOTE=Coffee;27718181][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnrLt3VuSM[/media]
Uganda in a nutshell.[/QUOTE]
I find this video completely hilarious.
I hope his death will act as some sort of matyr, its fucking terrible how much support the hate for the LBGT there is in Uganda.
Three cheers for the human race, the very definition of humane!
I hope sense he died gay people will use this to gain sympathy.
[QUOTE=mzathemind;27718791]Africa is such a fucked up place. People are even scared to go there to fucking help.[/QUOTE]
except a bunch of us pastors went to uganda and promoted this law
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