Uganda’s President Signs Antigay Bill
Summary
Last month Uganda’s president sign a law that opposed the gay relationships, such relations were to be punished by 14 years in prison. But if it’s a repeated offender it could spend the rest of his life in jail if it was a minor offender (this included relations with a minor, disable person or on of the partners has HIV).
This bill was first proposed in 2009 but the president, Yoweri Museveni had his doubts; mainly the lack of information about homosexuality President Museveni was seeking for scientific information that could backup the theory about the “homosexuality gene”. But also the pressure Western country had over the nation, and this is due to the fact that US and Canada are some of the countries that gives aid to the development of the country, and by signing this bill, the nation will be facing a lost the help from this countries.
Nevertheless, the theories were disproof and the conservative parties were worried about the increase of homosexual couples, the President observed that he couldn’t stall the bill any further and he had to make a decision. Last February 14th he signed the bill to approving the punishments against gay people and according to the experts opening the door for discrimination based on a person sexual orientation.
Opinion
Africa has been a continent that it’s in the process of fining their place in the world. It hasn’t develop as much as the rest of the world, this its connected to; their history, the fact that the continent was used as a place to obtain all type of natural resources and, sadly, slaves. But through time Uganda managed to evolve. Globalization has impact so many countries; there had been positive and negative outcomes related to the int...
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...he idealistic idea of everyone looking for true love. But simple because the world has change, centuries ago the Greeks believe perfections was in a male body, that male was a perfect culture and relations between two man was acceptable. Then times changed and homosexuals were persecuted and force to hide. Now times are changing once again but at this moment the world is split between tolerance and discrimination. While African culture believes people should control their impulses and has a “normal” life Western culture believes in equality and acceptance of the things we cannot control nor change. I believe this law “anti-gay” Is not a solution to a problem, its just a legal way to accept discrimination against a subculture, about allowing people to be subject to bullying, violent acts against them and not being able to have the freedom of choosing their partners.
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