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  1. Whenever the topic of homophobia arises, I’m always a bit mystified. Why do certain people hate homosexuality with such a vehement passion? Well, religion is clearly the no.1 reason as, in my experience, when questioned the vast majority (90+%) of homosexuality-haters I encounter are holy rollers who believe in this or that unverified and unverifiable invisible sky daddy. In the case of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) with their respective books written by men (anecdotally, I find men in my orbit far more likely to be homophobic than women and, tellingly, these same men are often far more forgiving of lesbianism than they are of male-on- male homosexuality), the literalist faithful are required to believe that homosexual sex is sinful and forbidden and by the letter of the holy law actually punishable by death! ( If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ~ Leviticus 20:13). No.2 is more than likely the classic closeted queer who just can’t accept their feelings and so actively pushes them away, for it is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are quite often repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can (and often are) expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” - the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. No.3 is the simple lack of basic education. When you grow up in a culture where the most important text is some primitive book written by fallible men 1000s of years ago, you know you’re going to bump up against some stupid, risible opinions which cannot be logically maintained without the appeal to a putatively omnipotent, omniscient ‘God’. In the same book of the Old Testament which institutes death for homosexual acts it also says: Ye shall keep my statutes … neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon you. ~ Leviticus 19:19 As I said: stupid and risible. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating what someone consensually does sexually isn’t one of them. Hitherto, not one person has given me a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality. I tend to dislike people and what they do in terms of their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their unthinking actions which harm others, their dress-sense etc., but not something over which they have utterly no say or control, and particularly not something which causes no essential harm to another. In this debate, it’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. On the other hand, you can be harmed against your will. With homosexuality, so many people utterly uninvolved with and unrelated to the given homosexuals seem to be mortally offended. I say: so what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s none of your business so butt-out. Ultimately, hating homosexuality is like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random individual has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  2. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is bizarre, indeed. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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