Author: "The Family" behind proposed Ugandan law that would execute HIV+ men

[Louisiana1976]

The African nation of Uganda is weighing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive men who have committed what it calls "aggravated homosexuality."

As if that were not shocking enough, a U.S. author is claiming that a secretive group of American politicians appear to be a driving force in seeing the proposal become law.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, heavily supported by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, was first read in October, triggering a wave of condemnation. According to the gay blog Queerty, Joann Lockard, public affairs officer at the Kampala, Uganda embassy, said the law would "constitute a significant step backwards for the protection of human rights in Uganda."

She added: "We urge states to take all necessary measures to ensure that sexual orientation or gender identity may under no circumstances be the basis for criminal penalties, in particular executions, arrests, or detention."

While that condemnation by a U.S. official would seem reflexive, others in U.S. political circles are providing financial and political support for the bill's sponsors, according to author Jeff Sharlet.

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http://rawstory.com/2009/11/author-the-family-proposed-ugandan-law-execute-hiv-men/

[Jkid]

1. This reeks of genocide.

[roguevalley]

11. appalling bastards, all of them must be mucho afraid of their own

... uh, masculinity.

[Odin2005]

2. C-Street = International Terrorist Group.

[yurbud]

3. when will the Family get on the national media radar?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. This bill is, amazingly, an incremental advance of existing Ugandan law

"Under current Ugandan law, homosexuality is a crime punishable by life in prison. The proposed law would not just condemn HIV positive gay men and "repeat offenders" to death, it would also jail for three years anyone who knows a gay man but refuses to report them to authorities. Further, anyone who defends in public the rights of gays and lesbians would be subjected to a seven year prison term."

[Richard D]

5. Seems like . . .

. . . it would be a great journalistic endeavor to reveal who the US members of "the family" are.

[glinda]

9. Why is the Media and our Government "covering up" C Street? The fact that some of

our own Government is involved in this should be grounds for them to be hauled in front of National Tribunals and charged.

[anonymous171]

6. How anyone support the death penatly after seeing shit like this is beyond me

[NYC_SKP]

7. I see. America's Number One Export: Hate.

What these bastards can't accomplish against people here, they support in other, weaker countries.

K and R.

:patriot:

[anonymous171]

8. See post #4

[sharesunited]

10. Discriminatory to the point of being idiotic. Heterosexuals are the source of the pandemic.

Gay in Africa just isn't much of a societal factor whatsoever.