In a disgusting new twist to the anti-gay fervor that has swept Uganda, The Daily Monitor reports that Makerere University student leaders said in a meeting with the chairman of the committee handling the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that recruitment of gays was rampant at the university campus. The students told Mr. Tashobya (in charge of the committee) that each of their colleagues who join homosexuals is paid a monthly salary of Shs800, 000.
I have no idea how much Ugandan money that is — but it sounds like some serious coin. We also know, due to reality and common sense, that this allegation is pure propaganda and utterly false. Exactly, who is paying these students? Until there is proof, such allegations should not be made and those putting forth such lies should be punished.
I’m still in shock. In one of the most anti-gay nations on earth — gays are getting salaries. Do they have to take out taxes for such services?
Seriously, what next, accusations that gay people roast children and eat them for snacks?
I’m not trying to be judgmental — but the anti-gay Ugandan legislators sound remarkably ignorant. How uniformed (particularly in the Internet age) does one have to be to believe such bile? Or maybe raw hatred makes some people blind to the complete incoherence and idiocy of the arguments put forth by supporters of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
The legislators in Uganda must ask themselves a pertinent question: Do they really want to look like some of the shit stupidest people in the world by passing a murderous bill based on laughably ridiculous stereotypes and lies? Do they really want to be laughingstocks and punchlines for the rest of the planet? Because I guarantee them — based on the “evidence” put forth — that anyone who votes for this bill will be disrepected and mocked in normal societies throughout the world. They will be viewed as circus freaks with brains the size of lady bug spots.
Speaking of people snickered at on the world stage, the noticeably effete anti-gay and condom burning activist Pastor Martin Ssempa (pictured) has presented a petition in Uganda’s parliament, calling for the passing of the anti-gay bill. The petition, signed by two million people countrywide, was presented to the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Ssekandi, yesterday.
Ssempa’s bizarre obsession with gay people having sex is jarring — particularly because he looks so damn gay.
Is he the next Larry Craig? I’m betting on it.
I agree this is disgusting, but you really want to call someone out for being “noticeably effete”? I have to admit, that doesn’t sit entirely comfortably with me. Can’t we just call him out for being a bigoted jackass?
You know, this would actually be hilarious were it not for the fact that people’s lives could hang in the balance. These hateful f*****s just never quit, do they?
I agree…when you look at Mr. Ssempa , you are looking at a very sick, troubled human being.
It’s about 341 USD according to one currency converter. Not sure what that will buy, but that Turn Gay for $$$ rumor could backfire.
He’s gay…it has been proven time and time again those that go after gay issues are GAY…hello dude wake up and smell the coffee…no matter where the coffee is from! Oh yes I thought the whole world was gay and the “straights” are in denial about being straight! LMAO
Emma, I disagree. The guy is the number one homophobe. He looks super gay. Is he really a bigot? Or a self-loathing homosexual like George Rekers or the late Jim West?
In terms of virulently anti-gay, homo-obsessed activists, projecting self-hatred Is as much an explanation as bigotry.
The fact is, if I had to pick a gay man out of a random police line-up. Ssempa would send my gaydar off.
That is my observation. If Ssempa is heterosexual, he isn’t very convincing.
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It doesn’t matter whether I am gay or straight, and it doesn’t matter whether Mr. Ssempa is gay or straight. What matters is tolerance & decency.
One other minor quibble: “How uninformed (particularly in the Internet age) does one have to be. . .” It seems rather obvious to me that ignorance & misinformation has increased exponentially with the internet. Just making the observation.
Maybe we should do a skit and re-enact this “Who wants to be gay for a day for their tuition?” It is not without risks, you may lose your life of course!
Martin has a point, uninformed people have a tendency to believe whatever they see on the internet (or read in any book for that matter). In the classes that we give here at the library on ‘Internet Basics’, mostly for older folks (no surprise there), one of the first things the instructor tells them is to NOT believe everything they see on the net — anyone can say whatever they want on there, no matter how absurd. We also instruct people looking for medical information to make sure it’s coming from a reliable source such as WebMD and not the opinions of some layman sitting in their bedroom.
Having said that, these Ugandan stories always make me think of the Salem witch trials. After reading The Crucible in grade school, I remember thinking how lucky we were not to be living in times like that anymore. I was wrong! Ignorant, gullible, superstitious people who *need* a scapegoat to dump on will find a vulnerable group and willingly believe anything about them as an excuse to hate and persecute.
Very rediculous objection to what is happening in Uganda. Take a look at the ACFODE Uganda reports for the past five years and see what is happening. You guys keep denying the obvious. Yes young men are paid for anal for sex in Uganda. Just one example, go to facebook and search out this name Lawrence Dodovic. Ask him how much he was paid to join homosexuality. Ask him also who paid his school tution for Telecom Engineering course he did at Makerere University in Uganda. Debate from an informed point of view. I agree with Gary (NJ), not everything you get from the internet is truth.
Jet.
Jet, you are an idiot.
Uganda is a state with many bigoted people, and a government that has found a way to enflame many peoples hatred…and thus, they are to busy embarassing themselves among the family of nations (most certainly happening) to see their government is failing them in almost every way that counts.
Nothing more need be said.
They get salaries? Gee, we only get toaster ovens.
“Seriously, what next, accusations that gay people roast children and eat them for snacks?”
That’s the atheists, silly.
Seriously, though. I don’t expect the bigots will start showing any shame soon. They’ve been spewing all manner of bizarre nonsense about us for how long? I don’t think they’d know shame if it hit them with a 2X4.
Jet, young men (and women for that matter) are paid for sex in every country. That you’d make this argument just shows how deluded you are.
Gene, you are a real simpleton. A big one at that. You sit in the comforts of America killing young men and women in Uganda thinking we stupid. Listen up, gone are the days when you ruled and exported and imposed nasty ideas to the nation. Swallow your own vomit and shame.
Becky you must be a deluded one. You guys hate truth. You always want to live with a lie. Please sort out your mess wherever you are and let our nation do what is just.
Bigots will you guys always be.
Jet.
Jet, a bigot is a person who wants to oppress others for who they are, thats you, not us. Your insanity shows through when you claim you want Uganda to do what is just. What is just is to let people do whatever they want as long as they harm no one. It is by definition just to leave gays alone and it is by definition unjust, grotesquely unjust, to seek to murder innocent people. You and Uganda are a beacon of evil. The civilized world looks upon you with utter disgust and horror.
Jet, as you are a citizen of a nation of bigots and visious fools, you may not see the sad humor in your comment. You are being manipulated by people here in America whom the vast majority of us would not let speak to our children.
In brief, you are being recolonized by some of the lowest and most fundamentalist fanatics, people whom we, and most of the world, from Europe to North America to South America to Australia to most of Asia, correctly see as debased, vicious spreaders of lies, and whom most religious people here have long denounced and washed their hands of.
The most educated and financially generous nations on earth…the nations that people from Uganda and other nations have long gone to for political assylum when your dictators like Idi Amin et. al, want nothing to do with the trash who have spread their disproven ideas on gay people to you….and they have come to you, because you are the last place on earth that anyone is listening to people like them.
And you embarass yourself saying WE are trying to export ideas to you, all the while you are influenced by western, fundamentalist fanatical filth. It would be funny if it were not so sad.
It is sad to see a nation ones called the pearl of Africa now made an internation pariah and laughing stock.
Your bigotry is your great shame.
And my comment on why bigotry is being stirred up, as a way to make the mean and vicious have a scape goat to attack instead of stoping to think “hey, why is my govenrnment failing to provide better services, Why is the LLA still killing, why is the economy so bad?” is true.
And you know it.