Boycott trade and tourism with Uganda - a logical response to
president Yoweri Museveni?
Feb 16, 2014
Do gay tourists and locals face life in prison in Uganda thanks to tax
exempt money US churches send to this African nation?
Should the United Nations including it's UNWTO (UN World Tourism
Organization) condemn Uganda. Should organization preaching
responsible tourism urge tour operators and airlines to boycott
tourism to this African country. Should countries issue travel
warnings?
What about the United States and the Western World initiate immediate
trade sanctions and cut of foreign aid to Uganda?
Should churches in the United States be held responsible for urging
the Ugandan government in sending their tax exempt donations to Uganda
to have this law passed?
The reason behind all of this is a law about to be signed in Uganda
that puts not only local Ugandan citizens but visitors at danger.
Ugandan gay activists have accused some of their country's political
and religious leaders of being influenced of American evangelicals who
want to spread their anti-gay campaign in Africa after not being
successful at home in the United States. Who is supporting these
churches with tax deductible money earned in the United States?
A prominent Ugandan gay group singled out Scott Lively, a
Massachusetts evangelical, and sued him in March 2012 under the Alien
Tort Statute, which allows non-citizens to file suit in the U.S. if
there is an alleged violation of international law.
On Friday, the watchdog group Human Rights First expressed "deep
concern" over news that the bill will be signed into law, saying it
"will have severely adverse consequences for the human rights of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as well as other
Ugandans."
After 14 medical experts presented a report that homosexuality is not
genetic but a social behavior, Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni is
going to sign the bill that may land homosexuals in prison for life,
officials have said after the leader's meeting with the ruling party
lawmakers.
The president's spokesman Ofwono Opondo wrote on Twitter that the
president's decision was influenced by a report by certain "medial
experts."
The spokesman added that the president "welcomed the development as a
measure to protect Ugandans from social deviants."
After the meeting of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ruling
partyon Friday, where the findings were presented, a spokesperson for
the party conference Evelyn Anite told reporters that the president
will "sign the bill."
Anite added that the scientists who prepared the report were from the
country's Health Ministry.
"(Museveni) declared that he would sign the bill since the question of
whether one can be born a homosexual or not had been answered," Anite
said in a statement as cited by Reuters.
A ministerial committee examining the issue formally stated that
homosexuality is "merely an abnormal behavior which may be learned
through experiences in life".
Musevini indicated in January that he could shelve the bill, believing
that homosexuality is an issue requiring the "rehabilitation" of the
individual, but calling it too severe. However, after the bill's
passing in parliament on December 20, he has increasingly been pushed
by his party to sign the legislation.
The new law will see life imprisonment become the norm for what the
government believes to be especially aggravated acts of homosexuality.
This term implies sexual intercourse in which one of the partners is
infected with HIV, or ones involving disabled persons or minors, as
well as "repeated sexual offences" between consenting aduts. As far as
officiating at gay weddings is concerned, the new bill proposes seven
years' jail time for the priest.
But even the life sentence is a far cry from what the law's proponents
originally suggested - the death penalty for homosexual acts.
The news has prompted an outcry from human right advocates. Watchdog
group Human Rights First expressed "deep concern" over news that the
bill will be signed into law, saying it "will have severely adverse
consequences for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) people as well as other Ugandans."
Varying degrees of punishment for homosexuality exist in at least 37
African countries.
For the majority of countries on the continent, homosexuality is not a
question of rights, but of culture and values. For instance, so much
as recognizing that a same-sex relationship even exists is outlawed in
the majority of countries, excluding only Senegal, Ethiopia and Saint
Helena (UK territory) - which appear to have no opinion on the matter.
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