HELLO UGANDA,"WHAT IS THE FUSS ABOUT
HOMOSEXUALITY"???


Everyday i wake up to a different story about homosexuality on the Ugandan air waves.I don’t know if this has got anything to do with the fourthcoming common wealth heads of state meeting slated for kampala come November this year.The Queen of England is expected here,and like you and me know,most of these common wealth countries are positive about gays back home.So this confrerence,or CHOGM as it is known locally here,may have a hand in this All of a sudden,gay people are out to claim for their rights “openly”and with vigour.On the other hand society is threatening to go all the way even if it means helping the police in identifying and helping arrest these so called homosexuals.I heard on radio this morning that the muslim tabliq sect is ready to help police on this(arresting gay people)in all ways.

Many have given their opinion about this issue of homosexuality here in Uganda.And as expected of a true African society,95% of the population said NO to homosexuality being legalized here.Much of the media is now concentrating on homosexual issues abandoning other topical issues that a real pain to the larger population here.And because a bigger percentage of Africans are illiterate,our leaders and the media deliberately divert us to issues that are not really Africas problem.So this is where ask myself,why the fuss about this homosexual issue in Uganda currently going on???Dont we have other issues to talk about?Mulago hospital is empty of drugs/medicine.And this is a national hospital were many from around the country come for “better”treatment.We have land issues to solve,markets are being demolished something that creates unemployement.And we are here wasting time talking about matters that are not only supposed to be private but don’t actually bite Africa,like corruption, polygamy,poverty,diseases name it.

Its high time we look for causes than blaming the “vice”.A greater percentage of the youths involved in homosexuality/lesbianism in Uganda and Africa at large are there by circumstances.Unless this is looked into by the relavant authorities in Uganda/Africa,many people are getting into the system and living a better life than before.I mean what do you expect one to do when there are no alternatives.Corruption has eaten up the African society that with the poverty gap,between the poor and the rich,many more lifestyles we take as immoral,are going to be “imposed” on us.

But let me stick to homosexuality for now.If indeed homosexuality is bad as we think,how then are we supposed to tackle it?Blaming the act and arresting the “culprits”wont help.Even God tried to destroy them in Sodom and Gomorrah but we are with them here.And besides how immoral is immoral?I mean who judges immorality.I have lived for 29 years now and i don’t remember reading in the papers that a man has been raped(sodomised).But every other day i hear about a baby girl being rapeddefiled.And not by anal sex but through the perceived natural way.So may be these people are not animals like we call them.And besides,whats WRONG with two adults who have consented to each other to be in a relationship?

But like i said if we consider homosexuality a taboo and “immoral”in our society,its time we looked at the cause and find solutions.Otherthan blaming the act and arresting the “culprits.

Polygamy,poverty,corruption,unemployement,are some of the causes of the fast tracking spread of homosexuality here.Unless families learn to groom their children in a parental way, the African society will have to accept change.South Africa is already there.And who on this African continent does not admire or what to relocate to South Africa given opportunity???
Governments in Africa have to realize that its through creating jobs for their citizens is the onlt way that, cultural,moral and traditional standards are maintained and sustained.We need strong laws to tackle polygamy,corruption,nepotism,tribalism etc.

Chris in Kampala,Uganda