Uganda wants no HOMO!

UGANDA WANTS NO HOMO:   

It is June 2012: I am in Uganda. I am in Mukono District at the private home of The Rt. Rev. James William Ssebaggala, Bishop of Mukono Diocese. It is early in the morning. It is probably 8:30AM GMT +2 East Africa standard time…time passes and  I find myself in a huge waiting room; people are beginning to walk in and out the Bishop’s office. Mainly priests (some are women priests, but mainly men priests) and other diocese workers. I was the second person the Bishop saw that morning right after his morning devotions with his staff.  To meet him, I walked straight back to his office with my friend a local reverend in the diocese.  So after greetings and introductions I told the Bishop about my projects at my home church in Ssinda Village. He seemed impressed but I sensed he had seen many impressive things.  Time passed and I proved myself a great conversationalist, so the BISH and I began talking about life and all the things in it. His eyes grew huge when I mentioned that I attended an Episcopal branch of the Anglican Communion in the US. At that minute he began to ask me all these questions about the Episcopal Church in general…. “Oh, how they are ordaining women into BISHOPS and how they are willing to even bless GAY marriages.”  

When he got to the GAY marriage part, he went on and on, forever! I wanted to laugh but I had to keep a serious face and I wanted to be respectful even though on any other occasion in other places I would have a lot say. The general sense in the media is that Uganda has this very conservative homophobic culture. I do not find that to be true: but once again: somewhere I have read that “ignorance is bliss” and I agree. The bill against GAY people was first introduced in The August House, Uganda’s Parliament in 2009 and it was proposing jail time to death to all Ugandans caught in GAY acts even in their own beds, it did not matter, if caught they said, “you were going to face the gallows.”

Anyway after three years the bill has not passed mainly because it doesn’t make sense…let us face it, this is 2012 and not some pre- modern times, in fact it is post-modern times, modern was so 1989. Yes I will say Ugandans are very homophobic by nurture not by nature. Kinda like the white men were to niggers in the days of slavery. Hilter, also thought Jews were inferior. Those were pre-modern times my friends, which is where exactly many of Uganda’s elders are on this issue, like my friend the Bishop.  
Witch doctors in Ugandan are doing hideous and horrendous things to little boys and girls all in the name of tradition and they are not questioned by many laws. I would like to ask Speaker Rebbeca Kadaga, who wants to pass this bill as against GAY people  a “gift to Ugandans,”  for Christmas. Honorable, what is more immoral? A witch doctor that abducts the future of Uganda and traffics them as the Dutch did the niggers in the old days. Or is it a gay Ugandan man or women holding on to his or her lover tight or even making slow and sweet love to them. 

What is more immoral Honorable Speaker, a GAY Ugandan walking down the street or having more than one wife as some traditions in Uganda permit us to do. In many places in Uganda, polygamy is the law, but being GAY is a crime. Not even a sin but a crime, because see government cannot rebuke sin, as it does not rebuke the millions of witch doctor clinics that operate in the broad daylight.  YES they are times when we all believe that a man made law is superior to the eternal and divine law.  If being GAY is not divine or not an eternal incidence then one is saying that God did not create all things in HIS image, and that my friends, is crazy. But if God created all things even the California sheephead which is a kind of fish that changes from male to female and vise verse then he created GAY Ugandans and that my comrades cannot be questioned. And if being gay is a choice, are you saying that God did not create choices!