Shock at M7, Opio Oloya sense, and Kevin O'Connor nuisance.

I never went to journalism school. The headings to the posts become too many.

In Ugandan papers, the shock headline in the Monitor says it all. For me, the shock was that I was supposed to have got a mouthwatering 20 Million US Dollars. I was wondering about that windfall and asking myself where Santa Claus had left that money.... But, Christmas is in two days, not so? I will check under the tree my partner has beautified. It will be there. I expect it.

Oh, the shock headline in Monitor? Museveni has assured the Americans that he will block the bill.

Opio Oloya, a Ugandan living in Canada, and writing a column for the New Vision surfaces in the debate. Once, some years and years ago, about 5, he wrote a column that was supportive of homosexual Ugandans. I remember. I sent him a note saying thanks. I bet it was the only one. Because the response in the country was not so good.

He is a columnist for the New Vision. But, the new vision has a blackout on all news with the word homosexual. Nagenda is special. Political clout, seniour presidential advisor. That is how he managed to get his article published. I bet Opiyo Oloya tried. And, he managed. But in the Andrew Mwenda's Independent.

It is a thoughtful article. Given the things that the pro-bill people have been going about saying that the bill was not understood, he took time to read the bill. Thoroughly. It is here, if you want to read it too. Oloya is no lawyer, but, he reads the English like I do. And his assesment of Bahati and Ssempa, without saying so in so many words is quietly damning.

First, look at rape as rape, and then look at homosexuality as a stand alone issue.  Once you have separated the two issues, keep in mind that just as only a tiny minority of heterosexuals rape girls and women, only a tiny minority of homosexuals rape boys or adult men. Should you choose to make homosexual rape of a boy punishable by death, then you also have a duty to make heterosexual rape of a girl punishable by death.  Both are victims of rape who deserve to see their molesters face the same justice.  It is that simple.

Secondly, once you have dealt with the issue of “aggravated homosexuality” or rape, you should try to figure out what to do with adult homosexuals who fall in love.  Should homosexuals who are not rapists be thrown in jail, sentenced to death, thrown into Lake Victoria or into vat of acid just because they are homosexuals? That is the question before you ladies and gentlemen. You could adopt the US Army model of “don’t ask, don’t tell” by which homosexuals who choose to live in the closet are not bothered at all.

 The italics are mine. And, Opio Oloya concludes his solid assesment with a warning.

Here is what I should warn you about though. Should you pass Bill 18 as it is currently written, be prepared for the avalanche of challenges from around the world.  It will be fierce and sharp. In fact, do not be surprised to see countries around the world immediately enacting laws that will make you, as members of Uganda’s parliament including the president of Uganda, pariahs on the international stage. My suggestion is to work hard to balance what you feel will promote traditional Uganda family values while respecting Uganda’s obligations to international human rights.  You can do both.

You know what I thank Oloya for, what I am really greatful for? It is the fact that he shows that Ugandans are not stupid. Err, but he is in the diaspora, so, he might have already been infected by the homosexual disease that touches everything in the west. Not so?

Opio Oloya, from a grateful Ugandan, thanks for bringing a tiny little bit of sanity to the debate as it is happening in Uganda.

Here is his article, again.

And, in the New Vision, he does his usual stuff. His usual column.


Hey, I bet this will escape everybody's attention.

A Marriage bill has been introduced in parliament. It is for Christians and Hindu marriages. Not for moslem marriages.

Now, what happened to the fact that the Constitution says we shall not have a state religion?

Read on, that is all my paranoia....

I was just wondering where I fall there. Because, this bill definately excludes me also. Since I am a non-believer.
But, I had not read far enough. This bill prohibits same sex marriage.
I think us Ugandans are obsessed with same sex marriages. Sincerely. The constitution says marriage is between a man and woman (or women?) but, I know there was an amendment to that effect. The first in the world. The Anti-Homosexuality bill says that, you get married, you get life time imprisonment. I am telling you the facts. For example, these guys, they would risk life time imprisonment because they got the traditional introduction ceremony.

Do you think we are done?

No. Not more. Grounds for divorce include, you guessed. Homosexuality.

Gosh, Ugandans! You do hate homosexuals!

To recap, according to the constitution of the republic of Uganda, I cannot marry my partner of years. Almost nine now. According to the draft marriage law, I cannot be married, because I am not a Hindu, or Christian. And, according to the draft Anti-homosexuality law, I risk life imprisonment if I so much as try to get married when I cannot.
And, if in any case I get married. (I think it would be to a woman...), my homosexuality, once revealed, would be grounds for a quick divorce.

Ugandans realy, truly hate homosexuals. Here is the article.

It is a fact. The 8th parliament of the Republic of Uganda is majoring in some really absurd laws...!



I absolutely love this cartoon from the Daily Monitor.

I love it, I love it, I love it.....!

Hey, the article underneath it.  I think Kevin O'connor just wanted to say something about homosexuality... You see, once he did the mistake of writing one, and, the online response and abuse from Ugandans was, well, enlightening.

If homosexuality is natural, then why are they recruiting?

Some people are actually totally convinced and believe in the recruitment thing. To me the allegations seem so laughable and pitiful that I even hesistate to put them here. But some people sincerely and totally believe in these things.

If homosexuality is natural, then why are they recruiting?

KAROORO OKURUT

I would like to put in a thought or two in reaction to Kevin O’Connor’s article in Sunday Monitor of April 26, 2008 titled: “Some truths about homosexuality”.

In that article Kevin makes a lot of sweeping statements, most of which he did not back up with any authoritative evidence and which cannot in any way stand the test of scientific research and verified hypothesis.

Kevin claims that 10 to 20 per cent of humans are born homosexual. He also claims that homosexual tendencies are normal and harmless in kids and they will simply outgrow them and become normal heterosexuals. He criticises those who bash gays, alleging homophobia on one hand and hypocrisy on the other.

I would like to take him on, on these submissions.

First, if such a high percentage of people are born homosexuals, how come there is a huge deliberate effort by some of our “friends” in the western world to recruit young people into homosexuality?

There is abundant evidence that these “friends” send plenty of money and gifts to clubs here so as to suck the young unsuspecting youth into homosexuality.

I was personally involved in the counselling of some young boys who had been recruited. They told a long, harrowing tale of the recruitment exercise they went through. They were provided with nail polish and would paint only one fingernail as a sign of membership to the club!

The recruitment that is being carried out is so worrying; it’s like they are mobilising for a political party or army!

Kevin, evidence abounds all around pointing to this recruitment mania. I invite you to come with me and I show you living examples of this.

One cannot have hatred for these young recruits – oh no. What one feels is impotent pity and one can only feel deep hatred and revulsion for the recruitment officers.

The young men are innocent; it is those that are hiring them into it that are beastly.

Kevin, I am sure you have not seen some of the young men who have been ruthlessly sodomised.

I have seen some of them with bottoms oozing with pus, having been afraid to go for help because their tormentors had assured them that one word would get them killed.

So they suffer silently; their bottoms rotting away and the poor fellows beginning to walk like ducks, until some good Samaritan intervenes. This is not fiction.

There are also incidents reported in some institutions of higher learning where some homosexual lecturers sexually harass their students. When the students object the punishment is an outright fail – you say no to sodomy and you forget about getting a degree or diploma.

If the homosexuals could restrict their practice to consenting adults, then maybe society would not be so angry; for that is not as bad as pouncing on young innocent fellows and destroying their lives.

Kevin also alleges that teenage homosexual tendencies are normal and harmless; just give the kids time and they will simply outgrow those tendencies and become normal heterosexuals.

This is a sad and misleading falsehood.

As I mentioned above, I have been shown young boys whose anuses have been literally torn to pieces after being sodomised. These were not born homosexual.

They have been used by the dubious fellows going around recruiting these innocent kids. If they were born homosexual, how come the God of Heaven did not make them adoptive to the sexual act so that there would be no damage? And contrary to Kevin’s claims, there are no “harmless” gay tendencies that the kids will outgrow in due course.

Most of them never get out of the habit once they are initiated into it. The trend has been that in a school for example, those who were initiated into homosexuality in their first year, after they go on to Senior Two, simply wait to mete out the same treatment to the next batch of Senior One kids, in vengeance of some kind.

When the kids come in Senior One, - innocent and new in the school and not in a position to argue or understand what is going on, or even resist it – the bigger boys sodomise them. And the cycle continues.

One growing danger is that young men and women from well-to-do families are now peddling homosexuality in a romanticised way saying it is “cool” to be homosexual. Parents of such children are bleeding.

This country must wake up and sensitise the youth against this practice. We do not need to witch-hunt homosexuals. What we need to do urgently is to stop this recruitment that is going on; we must prevent the homosexuals in their quest to build an army or brigade, starting with the schools.

 

makaoku2@yahoo.com

 

And my comments?

• Friends in the western world, will you please send me some money for recruitment? See, I am a cash strapped homosexual here. Should not have a problem ‘recruiting’. It will solve my money problems and further the homosexual agenda. So, anyone there to send me some money for the cause?
• But, if you send the money, please remember to back off the ‘accountability’. I have to warn you that I am a home grown homosexual. And I was not recruited. I studied in schools here, and live and work here. But I have just gotten to know of this ‘recruitment’ activity this year… The recruitment mania. But please send the money!
• Another caveat. I have told you am a home grown homosexual. Ugandan. Born, not err, recruited. According to the best medical opinion, one cannot change one’s sexual orientation. Oh, I know. I tried to change from homosexual to hetero. I failed. Shouldn’t have tried of course. But seems it is the hetero to homo which works. So, I will try that…!
• And another thing. Logically, most of the population in the west should be gay. They must have been aggressively recruited, by the aggressive homo activists, the homosexual agenda pushers. Or, do they work only in Africa? In Uganda?
• Bottoms oozing pus… See, I am a homo. And, though I am a bit careful telling the world what I do in bed with my partner of years, (it is punishable by life imprisonment), I have to confess that we have not had any bottom oozing pus phenomenon. (Maybe we do it the wrong way…! Or maybe not often enough?) I  bet a doctor would have them treated for an STD? That is what I think, but then, see, I am a homosexual. So, whatever I say must be wrong.
• Sex for grades, aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Happens so frequently, according to popular myths amongst the heteros. I mean, go to campus, see how the girls dress to kill. According to Karooro Okurut, it is forced when it is homosexual, huh? No longer consensual!
• Sex in schools- Sigh, why was I never recruited? Seems some guys have all the fun…! I think, Karooro, that according to Ugandan teaching, no sex should happen in school. No hetero sex. And no homo sex. That both occur is a matter of fact. Why you set aside the hetero and tell so many lies on the homo is beyond me… But that particular myth of us targeting children seems to be your strongest ‘recruitment’ persuader.

 

But sincerely, why are some people so ready to believe serious myths like this? Why do seemingly well intentioned people believe myths and are so resistant to use a little bit of logic to burst them? Come on Ugandans, homosexuality is not so ‘new’ or so ‘un-researched’ that you have to believe all that nonsense!

The myths are a serious problem. According to the writer above, the anti-gay blink when it is us adult homosexuals having consensual sex. But because of the ‘recruitment’ and the ‘homosexual agenda’, they are very willing to persecute us.

Ugh!

 

gug