Stop Fawning Over Pope Francis at the Expense of Women and Gay Rights

[El_Johns]

99. Funny. Your claim amounts to saying that even though both the Ugandan Catholic hierarchy

and the Vatican hierarchy have made official statements denouncing this bill in its various iterations, they are covertly sponsoring it -- a claim for which you offer no evidence whatsoever.

Rather than produce the evidence, you put up a straw man.

FYI, 87% of Uganda's population is rural, basically tribal. Uganda's literacy rate is 66% (and that's with "literacy" defined very loosely, as the ability to write a short paragraph about oneself). I doubt the majority of the population even know that such a bill exists. Do you know anything about Uganda at all????

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/uganda/rural-population-percent-of-total-population-wb-data.html

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/uganda/rural-population-percent-of-total-population-wb-data.html

There's also the little fact that Musaveni, a sometime supporter of the anti-gay push, is also a US ally...

If the U.S. does in fact want to improve the humanitarian situation in Uganda, there are other, more logical, ways to achieve this. The biggest obstacle to the strengthening of Ugandan democracy is not Joseph Kony or the dying LRA, but rather, Ugandan president and close U.S. ally Yoweri Museveni.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/2171/america-s-plan-in-uganda-is-hardly-humanitarian


At the time the bill was introduced, an independent MP stated he thought it had about a 99% chance of passing.[21] Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni openly expressed his support for the bill, stating "We used to say Mr and Mrs, but now it is Mr and Mr. What is that now?"[16] After facing intense international reaction and promises from Western nations to cut financial aid to Uganda, on 9 December 2009, Uganda's Minister of Ethics and Integrity James Nsaba Buturo said that Uganda will revise the bill to drop the death penalty (substituting life imprisonment) for gay people with multiple offences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Bill


Maybe Museveni is Catholic. Oh wait, he's not, he's a "born-again" fundie beloved of the US religious right and part of "The Fellowship/Family".

http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6187