Saving Gays From Damnation

AP Photo - Rebecca Vassie -- Protecting Uganda from Western "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs into law a new anti-homosexuality bill on Monday, February 24, 2014.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie) - See more at: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/world/after-european-countries-withdraw-millions-in-aid-over-anti-gay-law-ugandans-react-with-scorn-1.869194#sthash.LfCt0Bdc.dpuf

Saving Gays From Damnation

"We want to rid this country of homosexuality and if that means these people, Obama, Hague, you name them, want to stop their aid, then let them."
"We don't need (aid), we won't die poor, and we will at least be able to save these gays from damnation."
"Do not come into my house and tell me how to live, what food to cook, what to do, as I do not come to your house and tell you what to do."
Simon Lokodo, Ugandan ethics minister

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie) - See more at: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/world/after-european-countries-withdraw-millions-in-aid-over-anti-gay-law-ugandans-react-with-scorn-1.869194#sthash.LfCt0Bdc.dpuf

"He said people knew I was a homosexual, and he could not guarantee my safety, they could come and kill me at any time. When I left, people were staring, whispering. I did not realize the danger I was in."
Kelly Mukwano, 24, IT security consultant, Kampala

"I think they suspected something. They were always asking me where was my girlfriend -- I was 26 and by now I should be married. But then with the newspaper story, they said they had proof. We are Muslims. They said I was disgusting, that I had shamed the whole family."
"I have nowhere to stay. Friends are too afraid of mobs or the police to allow me to sleep at their houses.  ... I am so stressed I have thought this week of committing suicide."
Akram, gay Ugandan

Mr. Lokodo is a former evangelical Christian pastor. He won his job as President Yoweri Museveni's minister for ethics and integrity as a result of his support for anti-gay laws. "We have asked respected experts and scientists and they have found homosexuality is not there by birth, it is learnt", he declared decisively.

Straight Ugandans have taken to the new anti-homosexuality law signed by Uganda with great jubilation. The urge to expunge from society any community of people whose different orientation of any kind, let alone conventional gender roles, is resented and considered an insult, both personal and biological, leads inevitably to violence committed against the outsiders.

Uganda has not taken kindly to the expressions of horror and regret it has been made aware of, over this issue. Being condemned by the international community does bruise one's national ego, and Uganda has made it clear that nothing any outside source will say or do has the power to convince it to alter its judgement over the inadmissibility of gay culture to Ugandan culture.

It is a blight Uganda means to cut off at the root core.

And if publishing the names of known homosexuals aids the venture, all the better. Akram speaks of his family discovering his name included in that list and throwing him out of his family home, leaving him vulnerable and susceptible to the kind of violence readily adaptable to crowds of gay-bashers feeling entitled to exerting the supreme sacrifice on outed gays.

A Ugandan taxi driver reads a daily newspaper with a front page story on a new anti-gay law, in Kampala on February 25, 2014 (AFP Photo/Is

Western nations, which combined are responsible for providing Uganda with over $1.67-billion in international aid annually, have been told they can stuff their aid. Uganda doesn't need it. Uganda needs o convince its gay community that they have erred in deliberately choosing not to be a man as God intended. Their penalty under the law for continued defiance of public morality is justified.

Judges may now jail people who engage in the depravity of gay sex, for life; they have by their acts forfeited their right to life. Those who "aid and abet" homosexuality, or fail to properly respect their civilian duties by not reporting suspected homosexuals will be rewarded by prison terms of up to 14 years.

Civil justice in Uganda has once again spoken.