The “kill gays” shit in Uganda comes from the influence of Evangelicals in the US.
Didn’t some evangelical fly there to get some photo ops around the passage of that bill? Truly disgusting, but shows you what they really think.
More than that. They poured money and propaganda into Uganda to convince them that their problems are all because of gay people.
American evangelical groups have since spent years and tens of millions of dollars spreading homophobia in Uganda and beyond. Data from OpenDemocracy shows that from 2007 to 2020, over 20 US evangelical groups spent at least $54 million in Africa “to influence laws, policies, and public opinion against sexual and reproductive rights." Nearly half of that figure was spent in Uganda.
This movement quickly gained traction in 2009 after top American evangelical leaders headlined a three-day conference in Kampala on “exposing the homosexuals’ agenda.” Speakers promoted the notion that the “traditional” Ugandan family is exclusively heterosexual, claiming that gay Westerners and activists are attempting to spread homosexuality by corrupting and recruiting children around the world.
Oddly if you ask Ugandans they claim its their idea to keep out foreign ideas.
Great. Now do Florida's.
They can't do that since it might actually accomplish something.
Not to detract from said law, but you'd think our reps would have more important issues to deal with domestically
Por que no los dos?
I hate that argument because it's not like there's any limit to how many bills they can introduce.
No. There aren't any other issues they can deal with. The Democratic representatives can write any number of bills that, if passed, would help people, industry, climate , or anything else. The problem is, anything the Democrats propose would be reflexively shat on by the Republican majority and never pass. The Democrats could probably write an American version of the Kill the Gays bill and the House Republicans would still vote it down just to keep Biden from having a win.
The only positive thing the Democratic majority can do is force the Republicans to show their true colors by making them vote to support this hideous Ugandan law.
It's just a sense of the House, not a law. House keeping is part of the job, unfortunately the only one they can get done these days.
I can't WAIT for the Log Cabin Republicans to APPLAUD the BLOCKAGE of this Bill!
Good it is a disgusting law.
Welp guess we're going to start a proxy war with Uganda to bomb them with freedom and democracies.
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