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Parents want Anti-gay Bill enacted
STICKING TO VALUES: Stephen Langa (L) the executive director Family Life Network says they have collected over 100,000 signatures from parents all over the country backing the proposed anti homosexuality bill. Right is Dr, Sheilla Ndyanabagi, a member of the organisation. PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE
Posted Friday, December 18 2009 at 21:33
In Summary
The organisation is on a campaign to restore waning indigenous family values, the Executive Director, Mr Stephen Langa, said, stressing that Ugandans will not trade their integrity and promote “unnatural sex” for cash offers from Western governments.
Kampala
At least 100 parents, branding themselves protectors of African traditional values, have came out to pressure the government to enact the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and ignore threats by donors to slash aid. “They (donors) can keep their money and we will still survive,” Ms Margaret Ssekidde, a concerned parent told journalists in Kampala at a news conference organised by the Family Life Network on Wednesday.
‘Not natural’
The organisation is on a campaign to restore waning indigenous family values, the Executive Director, Mr Stephen Langa, said, stressing that Ugandans will not trade their integrity and promote “unnatural sex” for cash offers from Western governments.
Separately, Archbishop Luke Orombi, a public critic of homosexuality, has said at that they are drafting specific contributions to the Bill now before Parliament. “I am surprised by the global reaction to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill because it is yet a proposal on table for Ugandans to look at,” the prelate said who was addressing a press conference at Namirembe.
US President Barack Obama said the proposed law, which prescribes death penalty for the most heinous gay-related offences, “goes against the tide of history”. Sweden has indicated that the Bill violates minority rights, adding that it will cut aid to Uganda if the Bill is passed into law.
The State Minister for International Affairs, Mr Oryem-Okello, in an interview with Daily Monitor on Tuesday, described as “pre-mature and wrong” the chorus of international criticism based on a Private Member’s Bill.
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Interesting that the people who support the Bill refuse western influence when it is well known that the ideas of American campaigners against gay-rights have been sited as sources of inspiration by the creators of the Bill. Also when they say they want to "restore waning indigenous family values" are we talking about Christian values by any chance? The same values that were brought to Africa by colonial powers and white missonaries?
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Do adulterous also get the death penalty? After all what's the difference? To God they are both sins. If you are without sin cast a stone first. Pray for these people and don't condemn them for if God does not condemn you who are you to condemn?
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