Sign against Uganda’s gay death laws
Online human rights group Avaaz is urgently collecting signatures protesting an anti-gay bill currently before the Ugandan parliament.
There has been growing international condemnation of Uganda’s proposed anti-gay laws which would severely punish Ugandan homosexuals with prison or even execution.
The bill also seeks prison sentences for those seen to be protecting gay people and those working in the HIV health sector for “promoting homosexuality”.
If passed, Uganda would have some of the harshest anti-gay legislation in the world.
Online advocacy group Avaaz.org said 260,000 people around the world have already signed the petition protesting the bill. The petition will be delivered to Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and the Ugandan Parliament at the end of this week.
Human rights groups have expressed concern that, despite international pressure, the bill may still pass in the coming days.
Ugandan gay rights advocate Frank Mugisha said, if passed, the laws would put local gay citizens in serious danger.
“Please, sign the petition and tell others to stand with us — if there’s a huge global response, our government will see that Uganda will be internationally isolated by the proposed law, and strike it down.”
The group is aiming for 1,000,000 signatures.
info: Sign the petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_rights_2/?vl
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Chief Ameka Ojai implies that homosexuality is a manifestation of mental illness.
I have heard that medical professionals no longer recognise homosexuality as a mental illness. Perhaps some medical professionals could confirm that development in medical science.
Chief Ameka Ojai, if you consider that homosexuality is a manifestation of mental illness, do you think it is appropriate and just for the Ugandan government prosecute Ugandan citizens for exhibiting signs of mental illness?
If we pay heed to your implications Chief Ameka Ojai, it appears that the Ugandan Government is constructing legislation based on scientific theories that the medical profession no longer consider valid.
If we pay heed to you implications Chief Ameka Ojai, it appears that the Ugandan Government has rejected the internationally recognised legal doctrine of capacity, in that the Ugandan Government will hold the mentally ill responsible for their actions and apply criminal sanctions against those people if they commit acts which are recognised by the Ugandan Government as manifestations of mental illness.
Where is the Ugandan Government taking Uganda Chief Ameka Ojai?
The resources of the West should have been spend on the apparent educational deficiencies of some Africans instead of propping up barely democratic regimes like Mr Museveni’s.
Then maybe gays wouldn’t seem like Martians to them and Uganda would have had a change in government over the last 20 years.
Maybe if you weren’t so concerned with putting other people in jail for who they are, what they say, or what they, as consenting adults, do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, you would have time to pay attention to the treasury raiding officials that are robbing your countries blind.
The resources the West uses to advocate for Gay rights should have been well spent in educating and treating Homosexuals of their apparent mental health problems.