[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Redway

Speaking of this thread I don't know why hyperbolics are being played on the "bans" (BANS) bit, as if it's new news or supposed to be surprising in any way. Uganda's never not been very anti-gay. The T. in L.G.B.T. is something else altogether for most of them. That's just the way it is.

Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday
making it a crime to identify as LGBT, handing authorities broad powers to
target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.

It's the subject of the news article based on a NEW law introduced in Uganda

[Redway]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday
making it a crime to identify as LGBT, handing authorities broad powers to
target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.

It's the subject of the news article based on a NEW law introduced in Uganda

Yeah, well. They were basically just crossing the Ts and dotting the Is here. If being L.G.B.T. in Uganda wasn’t already more-or-less “banned” people over there would not be facing potential imprisonment for same-sex. banging/touching and Uganda wouldn’t have already long-been known as one of the most homophobic countries on Earth. About that per-se there’s absolutely nothing new.

[Livia]

Almost the whole of the Middle East is anti gay.... That's okay though because Islam is a religion of peace.

[Redway]

Most strongly religious countries are anti-gay to be honest. Christianity isn’t that much more accepting of LGBT stuff than Islam traditionally.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Redway

Most strongly religious countries are anti-gay to be honest. Christianity isn’t that much more accepting of LGBT stuff than Islam traditionally.

Give some examples of strongly religious Christian countries where someone could quite legally throw a gay person off a roof. Or where they can be beaten to death or imprisoned and tortured. You know very little about Islam, obviously.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

Give some examples of strongly religious Christian countries where someone could quite legally throw a gay person off a roof. Or where they can be beaten to death or imprisoned and tortured. You know very little about Islam, obviously.

I’m aware of how anti-gay Islam is, trust me (and I don’t know where you got the feeling that I wasn’t anywhere in any one of my posts on this thread) but Christian Africa’s no better when it comes to gay tolerance. People in even the Christian parts of Nigeria are subjected to similar treatment for their sexuality and that’s not even the half of it.

Look, I’m no fan of religious laws getting in the way of people’s free choice but at the same time I don’t have any particular axe to grind with Islam so I’m not going to lie and pretend I’m too bothered about the Middle East in this context when the thread’s literally about Uganda. If I’m not personally affected by something I just try and remain neutral and stick to not just what I know/think but what’s relevant. Nothing concerns Uganda with Saudi Arabia so unless there’s a contextual reason for it I just wouldn’t make it a point to compare them and criticise Islam because like I say that’s just not my axe to grind. It’s definitely not something I’d be moved to be rude about.

It’s me. I don’t know why you’ve forgotten that all of a sudden. Or is being very anti-Islam and making it known wherever possible part of the interpersonal deal now?

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Redway

Russia comes close to trumping all of them when it comes to political homophobia. I'd also wager that East Asia (at least Japan) than it is in most of South Asia but that's neither here nor there as far as this thread goes.

Speaking of this thread I don't know why hyperbolics are being played on the "bans" (BANS) bit, as if it's new news or supposed to be surprising in any way. Uganda's never not been very anti-gay. The T. in L.G.B.T. is something else altogether for most of them. That's just the way it is.

Yeah Russia has always been like that

[Redway]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Yeah Russia has always been like that

It has.

[UserSince2005]

Disgusting country, that lake they have turned that lake into a festering **** hole. Eldoret is the closest I can bare to go to that country without smelling the ****.

[arista]

[Ugandan MP John Musira
wore a gown with anti-homosexual slogans
on it for the debate in parliament]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65087562