Unspeakable Hatred

As I have stated earlier, I am a proud supporter of homosexuality. I have some incredible friends and family who are gay, and I wouldn't change a thing about them for the world. I know people who disagree with it as well, but when they do so in a respectful manner, I am totally okay with that. Not everyone is going to have the same beliefs as I do, which is what makes our country so unique. Unfortunately, I saw this morning that there are some people who take their hatred to a whole new level.

Here is the headline that I read this morning:

Uganda Wants a Kill the Gays Christmas

I literally thought it was a joke. I mean, no one can seriously believe that killing people as a Christmas present is okay, can they? Yeah. They can. Upon further reading of this article, my stomach was turning, I was filled with rage and anger, and I wanted to scream and cry for all of the people that this will affect in Uganda. 

Check out some of the lines that stood out to me. 

"Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told The Associated Press that the bill, which originally mandated death for some gay acts, will become law this year. Ugandans “are demanding it,” she said, reiterating a promise she made before a meeting on Friday of anti-gay activists who spoke of “the serious threat” posed by homosexuals to Uganda’s children. Some Christian clerics at the meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, asked the speaker to pass the law as “a Christmas gift.”"

"The bill was inspired by American evangelicals who, not content with a rising tide of gay rights legislation in the U.S., have decided to export their anti-LGBT agenda abroad." Great. So they're essentially blaming this on Americans. 

"The bill that, under international scrutiny, came to be known as the “Kill the Gays” bill has many more outright offenses to human rights than just the death penalty mandate. These include:

• A 7-year jail sentence for consenting adults who have gay sex;
• A life sentence for people in same-sex marriages;
• Extradition and prosecution of LGBT Ugandans living abroad;
• The death penalty for adults who have gay sex with minors or people with disabilities, consensual or no, or gay sex with a partner who has HIV, regardless of condom usage or consent;
• Jail for anyone who doesn’t report suspected gay people within 24 hours;
• A ban on the “promotion” of homosexuality so open-ended that it would endanger HIV/AIDS treatment and sexual health clinics in the country, and could effectively exclude gay people from petitioning the courts by making those representing them liable for criminal action;
• A mandate to break all ties with international commitments and laws opposing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill."

Okay so let's be honest. Where would we be without homosexuality? What wouldn't we have? All of you super conservatives out there are probably thinking, well, less people would be going to hell. You know what I'm thinking? 

• Less people would be laughing because we wouldn't have Ellen DeGeneres or Wanda Sykes.
• More people would be dressed like idiots because we wouldn't have Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. 
• Women would be heartbroken because Matthew Bomer wouldn't have been in Magic Mike AND he wouldn't be available to play Christian Grey. Yeah. Get on board with that, haters. 
• We wouldn't have Jody Foster, Anderson Cooper, Neil Patrick Harris, JIM PARSONS, Sean Hayes, Lance Bass, Ricky Martin, Heather Matarazzo, Chris Colfer, Alan Cumming, T.R. Knight, Elton John, AND COUNTLESS OTHERS. 

PLEASE sign this petition urging Uganda to abandon this bill. 

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