Shame on Uganda

I read with horror that an African country that calls itself democratic and civilised is contemplating passing legislation that sends homosexuals to jail for 7 years, prosecutes people who don't inform on homosexuals and is even considering executing people who are HIV positive. Here is an MSNBC video recently aired in the USA regarding this story, it exposes a whole host of dubious "meddling" from well known (evangelical) Christian senators who belong to a shadowy Washington DC based group known as "the family" and discusses what Democrats in the USA should do about this scandal. Thankfully our own government have already aired concerns about this issue along with several other European countries such as Sweden who have threatened to withdraw aid payments. Hopefully the UK will go further, it's already embarrassing that we have so many countries in the Commonwealth (over 40) who have some form of anti-gay law, many of which actively criminalise it.



Clearly this viewpoint doesn't represent the attitude of most mainstream Christians, although Christianity is where these people are drawing inspiration from and the basis of their ignorance, the author of the bill is a man called David Bahati, a member of "the family". (Unfortunately for the planet, this viewpoint does seem to be mainstream when it comes to Islam though)

I suppose that the issue of homosexuality causes theists of the main desert dogma's much angst because it questions the perfection of their God, there are clear warrants for prohibiting homosexuality in the Bible (Kings 14:24, Genesis 13:13, Leviticus 18:22 and so on) as well as the Quran, I wonder what a Christian or Muslim must contemplate when they think about gay people, there are only three ways of looking at it that I can think of, these are:

1) Being gay is natural, in which case God does not conform to their own prejudice and the prohibitions in the bible etc. are incorrect and therefore man-made and not the word of God; or maybe its one of those weird "tests of faith" so killing gay people is actually like challenge Anneka...

2) Being gay is not natural, in which case God is not perfect because he created everything, again doesn't fit the accepted dogma, this must be like having to gnaw off your arm to free yourself from a bear trap.

3) God does not exist and homosexuality is simply a manifestation of genetic variation in many animal populations; no way! (too rational) that one probably doesn't get much air time but is the one that all the evidence points to.

I guess you get yourself into an intellectual pickle like this when you disregard the evidence of the real world in favour of an imaginary one, it must be a real dilemma for them, however I can see the clear logical pathway from this kind of faith based thinking to where Uganda is headed. Let's hope international pressure is enough to avert atrocity visited by Africans on other Africans yet again in the name of their historical oppressor's invisible friends.