Homosexuals should not be killed but instead imprisoned for life, religious leaders have suggested.
Making their input in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 yesterday, the clergy said the clause on death as a penalty for homosexuality be scrapped.
“If you kill the people, to whom will the message go? We need to have imprisonment for life if the person is still alive,” said Rev. Canon Aaron Mwesigye, the provincial secretary of the Church of Uganda.
The group, which also comprised Dr Joseph Kakembo of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Dr Joseph Sserwadda, the head of Pentecostal churches, Prof. Peter Matovu, the Orthodox vicar general of the Orthodox and Sheikh Ali Mohammed, representing the mufti, however, made it clear that they support the Bill, because “homosexuality is an evil and is anti-godly”.
Good grief. This is progress? What a bunch of hypocritical idiots. What would Jesus have thought of this?
Throwing them in jail will give them plenty of time to read the Bible. Will there be a chance of parole should they manage to pray out the gay?
I’m not going to listen to clergy here; why would I listen to Ugandan clergy? These are the same people who think there’s an invisible man in the sky watching everything we do.
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Ain’t religion great!
Because nothing gay ever goes on in prisons…
Nah, hang them. I recall a contingent of gays came to see the pope and ask for absolution. He told them, “get away from me, you have dick on your breath,”
Is this a true story Sister MHGOQR?
which pope recognized that order, or do they all?
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#6 – Please don’t be so gullible. Did you ever listen to Sam Kinison? He was actually a baptist minister before he lost religion. Tongue planted firmly in cheek there Hopper! 🙂
Well, it is an improvement I must say.
Uganda is a backwards country so it’s logical their religious leaders are equally backwards.
I venture they’re slightly behind the Christian leaders in Mississippi.
stoopidflanders
I’ve a better idea. why not jail the christians instead cos then they will have plenty of time to read origin of the species and mend thier ways.
but this demonstrates the very real “evil” that is religion. Humans don’t separate the sin from the sinner and every human knows that. How many gays around the world are killed/injured/tormented for simply being human? And that behavior IS reinforced/supported/instigated by the more “enlightened” teachings of protestant and catholic dogma. Don’t know about the Jews==any help there, who knows?
“The bibble is our only source of morality”==you hear that all the time, yet if morality didn’t spring from other sources, how would we all actually judge most of the bibble’s morality to be “wrong”/out of time?
Religion–something all good people will avoid.
Nay finally replied: “Except upon whom unto them ye shall not withhold above all, ye repent and slew but they below all men suffer effeminate, nor abusers that dwelt in sanctified fornicators.”
Jesus was a 30 year old unmarried man, who lived with his mother, and hung out in hooker bars. Maybe he was light on his sandals?
Jesus might say; If you’re gay and live in Uganda, you might want to rethink your lifestyle.
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Ye is one strange piece of work.
#16 Queer Boy-Jesus was a 30 year old unmarried man, who lived with his mother, and hung out in hooker bars. Maybe he was light on his sandals?
Oh, I get it, the old I have a friend…
Now, don’t you feel better that you were able come clean about yourself.
Nah, hang them. I recall a contingent of gays came to see the pope and ask for absolution. He told them, “get away from me, you have dick on your breath,”
How did the pope know that smell? 😉
But seriously folks, I’d have more respect for the anti-gay Christians if they came down on divorce as hard as they do on homosexuality. I mean, Jesus actually condemned divorce; he didn’t condemn homosexuality.
But banning divorce would be inconvenient for the bible thumpers. Having to actually live by their own religion is too much for them. It’s far more easy and fun to condemn other people.
Wow. Crazy folks. If it’s not the Jews, gypsies, blacks, Irish, Tutsis, Huto, it’s the gays. If we can only stop “THEM”…then our lives will be fine. It’s obvious that “THEY” are responsible for our ills and our problems. I mean it’s surely not US….we don’t have a problem…it’s “THEM”! We all know it! So let’s get together and stop “THEM” and protect our way of life!
#22 Good point but you miss the whole objective of why there is “we” versus “them”.
Power and control over people is always grounded on some form of fear, uncertainty and hence blame.
There MUST be an evil somewhere !!
@Dallas
It’s the culture of blame. It shifts over time but still takes generations to improve. It’s not a liberal or conservative thing, but when it’s mixed with extremists (religious, political, cultural, etc) it gets very ugly.
#25 Pfft. I believe it is more than a simple culture of blame answer and assume your point to imply some temporary or some passing phase.
Hate is a byproduct of fear. Fear is a tool of oppressors. Religious factions are classic oppressing entities that assert rule over their sheep by way of fear. Example – the whole point of Christianity is the perpetual war of heaven versus hell, good vs evil!
For sheep to fall in line, you need to associate something less ambiguous than “evil” and use people. See examples:
Christian church Gays and lots more
Hitler Jews
Bush terrorism, muslims
KKK Blacks, Jews, Gas
GOP fear of: change, communism, sex, marriage, gays, immigrants, TV, internet, blacks, clowns, polar bears, …
# 10 Change every “Uganda” with “USA” and what you say is what the rest of the world thinks. Most comments here (from americans) shows that you are all a bunch of religious fundamentalists. By the way, nothing against gays as long as they stay away from me 🙂
Are not the Christians killing those in the middle east who want to terrorize and mandate death to the “infidels?” I am troubled that the crimes of Muslims are almost undistinguishable from the lustfull goals of western religious radials (the far-right “Christians” from America that got this bill rolling).
PS: I also find it a bit humerous that some support was gained for this bill by claiming homosexuals caused the holocaust. Absurd as that is (I bet they’ll blame the Jews next …), it does not seem that the leaders in Uganda think a holocaust is undeserving of certain people anyway (a group the Nazis rounded up and killed as well).