Adventist Today Does Uganda really kill the LGBT folks?

 One of the biggest problems with the people over at Adventist Today is they read and listen to only leftist media. Adventist Today is leftist so apparently they only listen to the leftists. The problem is that if a person does that they often only hear the leftist propaganda.  Take for instance this article once again from that font of misinformation Loren Seibold.  Deafening Silence My church supports the killing of LGBTQ people in Uganda.

Quoting what Andrew Klavan often humorously terms the New York Times a former newspaper Seibold says:

They began leaving after Uganda’s Parliament passed a sweeping anti-gay bill in late March that threatens punishment as severe as death for some perceived offenses, and calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in same-sex relations.

While Uganda along with many African countries has long outlawed Homosexuality this so-called new offense is actually something that deals with what the law terms as "aggravated Homosexuality":

Under the new proposed bill, homosexual conduct will still be illegal, but identifying as homosexual without engaging in homosexual acts will not be outlawed. 

The bill, however, retains its more extreme elements, including the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” which includes sex with a minor, having sex while HIV positive and incest. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/02/africa/uganda-passes-anti-homosexuality-bill-intl/index.html

Nigeria and Uganda — among 32 of the 54 African nations that criminalize same-sex relations — have some of the strictest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uganda-nigeria-africa-lgbtq-rights-1.6952765

I was going to put the places in Africa where it was OK to be Gay as that was a title of a Newsweek article but I misread the title so it did not list the 22 countries out of the 54 where it was legal, still an interesting read. Where Is It Illegal to Be Gay in Africa?

 From the Ugandan law:

 3. Aggravated homosexuality

(1) A person who commits the offence of homosexuality in any of the circumstances specified in subsection (2), commits the offence of aggravated homosexuality and is liable, on conviction, to suffer death.

(2) The circumstances referred to m subsection (1) are where-(a) the person against whom the offence is committed is a child;

 (b) the offender is a parent, guardian or relative of the person against whom the offence is committed;

(c) the person against whom the offence is committed contracts a terminal illness as a result of the sexual act;

(d) the offender is a serial offender;

(e) the offender is a person in authority over the person against whom the offence is committed;

(f) the person against whom the offence is committed is a person with disability or suffers a disability as a result of the sexual act;

(g) the person against whom the offence is committed is a person with mental illness or suffers a mental illness as a result of the sexual act;

(h) the person against whom the offence is committed is of advanced age;

(i) the sexual act is committed against a person by means of threats, force, fear of bodily harm, duress or undue influence, intimidation of any kind, or through misrepresentation as to the nature of the act; or

G) the person against whom the offence is committed was, at the time the offence was committed, unconscious or in an altered state of consciousness due to the influence of medicine, drugs, alcohol or any other substance that impaired his or her judgment https://www.parliament.go.ug/sites/default/files/The%20Anti-Homosexuality%20Act%2C%202023.pdf

What most news outlets ignore is that aggravated homosexual activities are not that different from such charges as aggravated child trafficking which also carries the death penalty.

This week, they were hit with an additional charge of aggravated child trafficking, which carries the death penalty if they are convicted, the state prosecutor said Wednesday.The couple recruited, transported and kept the child through “abuse of position of vulnerability for purposes of exploitation,” according to the charge sheet. US couple facing death penalty in Uganda for alleged torture, trafficking foster child

 

Aggravated rape is also a death penalty law in Uganda:

Section 129 (1) of The Penal Code Act provides that:

(1)               Any person who unlawfully has sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of eighteen years commits an offence and is liable to suffer death. Mention the ingredients of the Aggravated Rape https://cepiluganda.org/news-blog/high-court-highlights-the-ingredients-of-aggravated-rape-in-uganda-v-kayondo-david-case

Those things the New York Times called perceived offenses seem to hold the same penalty as they do for non-homosexuals in Uganda. While the laws in Africa and many Middle Eastern countries are much more strict on homosexuality than in Western countries. Most certainly Loren Seibold's fearmongering account of the Ugandan law is not true. That Seibold stands against the majority of Ugandans Christians and Muslims in Uganda only shows the imperialism of his progressive politics.

The Ugandan IRUC is made up of:

IRCU is constituted by; the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), the Church of the Province of Uganda (Church Of Uganda-COU), the Uganda Orthodox Church (UOC), the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), the Seventh-day Adventist Uganda Union (SDAUU), the Born Again Faith in Uganda (BAF) and the National Alliance of Pentecostal and Evangelical Churches in Uganda (NAPECU). Similarly, IRCU works with other religious organizations, namely the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’i, the Methodist and Lutheran Churches. https://www.ircu.or.ug/who-we-are/

The imperialism that so many progressives seem to despise appears to not exist when it comes to the laws of other countries that the Western countries dislike. But it does make you wonder when homosexuality is outlawed in 32 out of 54 African nations, why is Seibold so upset about the Adventist church in the IRUC of Uganda should he not be upset that the Administration of the SDA church is not vocal about all those nations laws. He only seems to get upset when the leftist media tells him to get upset. Funny how that works, at least until you realize that progressive politics is actually the new religion and the once great newspapers are now the propaganda tools for progressives.