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To: freedom462
I believe that all homosexual acts are banned under this new Ugandan law, public and private, the same as 14 US states did before Lawence v. Texas was handed down as recently as 2003. The penalties are much more severe than US states imposed, but are graduated by seriousness related to the effect on children (homosexual pedophilia is a capital crime, for example.).

Sorry, but I am just pulling this info out of my memory from something I read about the law in the past year. I don't have the source readily available. We have to be very wary of media propaganda regarding what this law does - they will falsely depict this as a bloody pogrom against all suspected homosexuals.

93 posted on 02/16/2014 6:14:42 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

Well I am not gonna advocate for the US trying to dictate to Ugandans how to run their nation just because gay rights activists in the US might be screaming and yelling for that, this is a given. But I am not on board with laws outlawing unapproved sexual acts in private either. Lawrence v Texas and Bowers v. Hardwick showed how impractical such laws against private sexual acts are. I know that is an extremely unpopular opinion for some groups around here, but I just don’t think it is a coincidence that countries which try to outlaw certain private sexual acts between consenting adults are typically also the least free and most totalitarian places in the world as well.


94 posted on 02/16/2014 7:30:53 PM PST by freedom462
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