Editorial: U-GAY-L-Y, Uganda ain’t got no alibi

Phone rings.

“Hello Mr. President, there are homosexuals running toward your house with burning torches and machine guns. You need to evacuate.”

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill on Feb. 24 stating any homosexual acts will be punishable with life in prison. A day after Museveni signed the bill, a tabloid newspaper exposed hundreds of homosexual Ugandans with huge headlines.

Museveni publicly called homosexuals “disgusting” and believes being gay is a “genetic distortion.”

This bill seems a bit contradicting – imprison homosexuals, fill the cells with people who are attracted to the same sex. What happens if homosexual acts are committed within the cells? Then what? Kill them?

Hundreds of people have already committed suicide due to his ignorant values and misplaced morals.

Being president means making the difficult decisions within reason and logic, for the people, for the country. This is not reasonable.

A person’s sex life is nobody’s business other than their own.

Museveni claims that this law’s passage does nothing to set Uganda back in time. An examination of his track record on human rights, however, shows he cares little for such issues.

Museveni has publicly supported major companies that back groups like Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) – a militia responsible for child slavery and soldiers, human trafficking, rape, and torture of women.

Museveni has shown that for the sake of reelection and political pull, he’s willing to disregard basic human rights.

All of the country’s growth is being undone by a bigot’s fallacious law that imprisons people for loving people.

Shame on you.

Well Mr. President, don’t be surprised when you have hundreds of Ugandan homosexuals burning your house down because your pea-brain decided to pass a law that is none of your business.