“However, we Africans always keep our opinions to ourselves and never seek to impose our point of view on the others.”

These are the words of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, which he shared with journalists last week as he signed a new law making homosexuality punishable by life in prison.

Because the LGBT community in Uganda totally shares your point of view that they should all be locked away for having consensual relationships, right Museveni?

Now, technically, Museveni was discussing with reporters his thoughts on the rest of the world’s opposition to the new law, but the sheer egocentrism it takes to make that statement while signing away the rights of others is on a level far past anything I’ve ever seen.

It takes even more cajones to say something like that when an actual provision of that law makes knowing about and not reporting somebody else’s homosexuality punishable with a prison sentence. That’s literally making it illegal for somebody to not share your point of view.

It’s not even a matter of Uganda wanting homosexuals to leave their country. The law actually includes a clause to extradite Ugandan citizens back to Uganda for engaging in homosexuality outside of their own country. I don’t even have words for the kind of unrelenting hate that speaks to.

Unfortunately, it looks like this law is a lose-lose for everyone. Not just the LGBT community who are persecuted by the law, or the heterosexual people who don’t agree with the law and could be punished for it, but even the law’s supporters, as Denmark, Great Britain, and the U.S.A. are not only cutting financial support to Uganda, but in all likelihood a great deal of outside private investors as well.

Now, I’ve never been involved in LGBT rights advocacy, and I doubt I’d be able to explain just how morally reprehensible this law is as well as anyone who has. However, after noticing how even Republican leaders have come out against Arizona’s recent “Religious Freedom” bill, I think I know an argument that might reach anyone self absorbed enough to think this bill is a good idea.

Who says you aren’t next? Even with only this law, what’s to stop some Gestapo-esque figures in black hoods from charging into your house in the dead of night and dragging you away for supposedly being gay? After all, there’s no physical way to prove somebody is a homosexual . At what point do you end up going to prison because a malicious buddy tricked you into opening a link to “Two girls one cup”? What’s to stop somebody from claiming you “knew” your neighbor was in the closet?

Of course, you probably shouldn’t have to worry. Museveni would never try to force any other opinions on you, right?