The menace of homosexuality is apparently getting out of control in Uganda.The Ugandan government said on Saturday it would strengthen anti-gay laws and step up police operations against homosexuals amid concern about the "mushrooming" number of gays and lesbians in the East African nation.Getting our own house in order will only be the beginning.
"The state of moral health in our nation is challenging and we are concerned about the mushrooming of lesbianism and homosexuality," Ethics and Integrity Minister James Buturo told a news conference. "Ten years ago, this phenomena was not there, but the disease has penetrated everywhere," he added.
Same-sex intercourse and marriage is illegal in Uganda. The official sentence is life imprisonment, but there is no record of anyone being convicted in Ugandan courts. Buturo said that the law would be changed to increase the number of prosecutions. Gays, who are believed to number in the tens of thousands, remain underground in Uganda as a result of the stringent laws.
And here I always read that Jeebus was a socialist.
"Scanning a mirror doesn't work." I love FAILblog.Let's start with the need to elect a pro-family, pro-life President. The importance of this objective cannot be overstated. Between 2009 and 2012, there will likely be two or more opportunities for the President to nominate new justices to the Supreme Court. Some court watchers say there could be as many as four resignations. That alone should give us serious pause as we consider for whom to cast our votes. In the months ahead, the Supreme Court will likely hand down rulings that will impact America for generations to come. We need a President who will nominate conservative, strict-constructionist judges to the Court. If that doesn't happen, the highest court in the land could become stacked-even more than it already is-with justices who will endeavor to legislate from the bench and impose a liberal agenda on the nation. It will likely affect the definition of marriage, religious freedom, and the protection (or lack thereof) of life in the womb.And then he shares his terror about an Obama presidency:...I am now supportive of Senator John McCain and his bid for the presidency. This is not because I am beholden to the Senator from Arizona or to the Republican Party. Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with my views knows that I have agonized at times during this election process, and have been strongly critical of Senator McCain and the Republican Party on numerous occasions.
The longer the campaign continues, the more concerned I have become with Barack Obama's liberal views. Certainly, he is an attractive and very charismatic candidate who has embarked on a campaign of historical proportions. However, the majority of his policies represent the antithesis of principles I hold dear. Senator Obama's record is more liberal than that of any other Democrat in the Senate-and that's saying something!I can't wait for you to read Daddy D's defense of Sarah Palin. It's below the fold....It is a matter of historic significance that Barack Obama has become the first African-American to capture the nomination of a major political party for the office of President of the United States. I applaud that remarkable accomplishment. Nevertheless, I cannot support his candidacy because the positions he holds on moral, social and family issues place him at the extreme left of the political spectrum. What the Senator believes and the policies he would seek to implement are on a collision course with the biblical principles and beliefs I have fought to defend for more than 35 years.
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Turning the corner, the significance of Governor Palin to the 2008 presidential race is also worthy of further consideration. Here is a woman who is a deeply committed Christian, and who is pro-life not only with regard to her policies, but in her personal life. She and her husband welcomed their latest child, Trig, into the world even though he was diagnosed with Down syndrome while still in the womb. Approximately 90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted, but Governor Palin carried her precious child to term and now loves and cares for him despite the challenges associated with a special needs child.Ummmm...yes, it is. Boy, was that a flaming pile of crap. I need an air freshener behind that load he dropped.Similarly, her teenage daughter, Bristol, who became pregnant out of wedlock, could have bowed to cultural pressure to seek an abortion. Instead, she and the father plan to get married and raise their child together. Governor Palin has been married for 20 years, and by all accounts, she is a portrait of Christian motherhood and womanhood.
As for Governor Palin's qualifications to be Vice President of the United States and to assume the mantle of President, should that ever become necessary, she is much better suited for the job than the talking heads on the liberal Left would have you believe. She came out of nowhere to win the Alaskan gubernatorial race against a powerful incumbent. While in office, she bravely fought widespread corruption-including that within her own party-in the face of great opposition. Govenor Palin's critics suggest that her experience as mayor of a "small town" is somehow a liability, but it is an asset. In fact, her time as Mayor of Wasilla and then as Governor of Alaska gives her a greater degree of executive experience than Senator Barack Obama can claim. Her qualifications to be Vice President, I would submit, exceed those of Senator Barack Obama, who spent only 143 working days in the U.S. Senate prior to announcing his run for President. He authored no significant legislation during that time.
I'm sure you have heard the shrill voices from the political Left decrying Mrs. Palin for any and every reason under the sun. They gloat over the pregnancy of her daughter Bristol and claim it as "evidence" that abstinence education, which Sarah Palin strongly supports, is somehow a sham.
I give big props for the Dallas Voice for choosing to provide coverage of the 10th anniversary of two tragic murders -- of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd -- whose lives were snuffed out because of bigotry. The two high-profile killings are featured in the Voice's five-part series on anti-gay hate crimes in Texas, but the race-motivated brutal crime involving Byrd was given equal prominence.In the wee morning hours of Sunday, June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr. was walking through the streets of his hometown, Jasper, on his way back to his apartment from a party. Three young white men in a pickup offered him a ride.The men responsible for Byrd's heinous murder -- John King, Shawn Allen Berry, and Lawrence Russell Brewer, were prosecuted. White supremacists King and Brewer received death sentences, Berry received life. Byrd's family founded the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing; his son campaigned against the execution of his father's killers.But instead of taking him home, the three men took Byrd to a clearing in the woods on the east side of town. There they beat him and kicked him, and then sprayed black paint over his face.
Finally, they chained his feet to the bumper of the truck and drug him down the two-lane country road for about three miles. At one point, as the truck took a curve, Byrd's body swung out to the side, striking the edge of a concrete drainage culvert. The impact tore his right arm and shoulder, his neck and his head from his body.
His killers left his head and arm there in the ditch. The rest of his mutilated body they left lying in the road, a little further along, in front of a cemetery and a church. People on their way to church later that morning found the body and called police; as officers were responding, they were flagged down by other citizens who had found his head in the drainage ditch.
More below the fold.
Matthew Shepard's murder was covered by CBS, where there is a full transcript:
It was ten years ago Monday that openly gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten. He died five days later.Another description:Police ruled it a hate crime, and there was an international outcry, along with calls for tougher laws.
As CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras notes, the beating was so savage that a description of his injuries, even a decade later, is hard to listen fathom.
"His head trauma consisted of a massive blow to the right side of his head," Rulon Stacey of Poudre Valley Hospital told reporters at the time. "It fractured his skull from behind his head in a horizontal fashion to in front of his right ear."
According to a coroner at the trial of his attackers, he "was hit at least 20 times by blows so hard they fractured his skull six times[.]" The damage was so disturbing that jurors, "winced as they viewed graphic photos of [his] bloodied face[.]"Q of the day -- what was your reaction when you heard the news about these two hate-motivated murders? How far have we come since that time?...By looking back on Matthew Shepard's death and the countless other tragic incidents that occur every year due to anti-LGBT crimes, the media can play a vital role in determining community and law enforcement response to hate-motivated attacks - from local and state hate crimes legislation to the Matthew Shepard Act and beyond.
For such a wonderful, generally progressive place, Minnesota radio tends to be polluted with some of the most toxic hate imaginable. This clown's name doesn't ring a bell (maybe he wandered in after I moved away), but his M.O. is familiar.
From Media Matters:
On the October 2 broadcast of his Minneapolis radio show, Chris Baker said, "I don't think homeless people should vote. Frankly. In fact, I have to be very honest. I'm not that excited about women voting, to be honest." Baker subsequently added: "But that's just me. I'm a pig, and that's fine. All right? And we'll see that, I'm sure, on a lame-ass website very soon. But I don't think hobos ought to vote at all. They're nuts. And I think that there needs to be a little more care in who votes."
Sounds like a Paul Weyrich groupie to me.
But, at least he is willing to let women out in public - presumably sans neo-christianist burqas.
Later, when KTLK's Danielle Hitchings asked Baker, "Women voting makes you nervous?" he replied, "Yes, it does." When asked why, Baker said, "Because women tend to vote more for security than freedom."
The proper reply by Hitchings would have been to tell Baker to go oink himself. I have to presume that that did not happen.
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