Uganda in the last few weeks had its fifteen minutes of fame. The august Uganda parliament--that infamous house where votes are bought and sold to the lowest bidder--passed the Anti-Faggot Bill that is envisaged to send suspected homosexuals to prison for life. Love kills. Ugandans should know it better than anybody, having been killed with Aids by the millions. Thanks to gay activists in Act Up who pushed that swaggering American President Reagan to release funds for research, many Ugandans can now live long with the scourge of the disease.
The impetus for the bill and subsequent apoplectic hyperventilation in the social network is that homosexuality is foreign to Uganda--mainly brought by foreign white people to corrupt our young into despicable behavior.
First, my objection to the bill is that it is an assault on individual liberty which, I am told, is enshrined in the Constitution of Uganda. If we proscribe how a person has sex, what else can we proscribe that we find objectionable? When we objectify a group, then we give ourselves permission to do with them anything we want. Many know very well the oft quoted "biological substance" in regard to the Northerners. Those two words were enough to create disgusts. It galvanized the perpetrators to do all manner of evil to these non-humans without any guilt. Of course, that included the homosexual acts that the perpetrators were used to--that of pumping the rear-ends of men, especially in the Acoli region. This was at a time when whites were not coming in droves with aid moneys.
I posit that homosexuality is a human condition that may be a consequence of hormonal imbalances in the developing fetus. There is plenty of literature that explains that epigenetics-- the environmental effects on the genes--might be what causes the gender dubiousness in some people. If that is the case, then Ugandans are not immune to that possibility. And history and cultural practices confirm that.
It is a known fact that Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda was a homosexual. The saying goes that "hell has no fury as a woman scorned." Tell me about it--I have had my share of furious women! But we are talking about King Mwanga. The ferocity with which he killed those page boys who are now Christian saints, speaks of the intensity of his feelings for the boys. And that intense feeling is not uncommon even in heterosexual relationships. Who can forget OJ Simpson who brutality stabbed and killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend? I would die if I can't have you but, since I am such a coward to kill myself, if I can't have you, no one will. And in a state of temporary insanity the perp does the unimaginable.
I am not picking on Baganda. But they are the dominant tribe with marked influence on many aspects of Ugandans' lives--whether the rest of us like it or not. I do not know whether Baganda's practice of "stretching" has caught on or not. The last time a female friend confided that it has spread eastwards. This is when the auntie pulls on the vaginal labia of her young ward to help elongate it. It is supposed to give great pleasure to the male species later on. This practice is as lesbian an act as can be. I am sure the auntie receives as great pleasure as she gives pleasure.
Back to this bill. The opposition should stay clear of. It is a trap. If you reframe it in terms of liberty of the individual, you will be kaput comes 2016. The master tactician will say: For us in the NRM we don't want foreign ideas. Let the faggots go to wakina FDC, UPC, DP. And Ugandans not knowing liberty even if you shove it down their throats, will vote the Ogre again.
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