Joel Hendon

Might Civil Upheaval Or Violence Occur Over Homosexuality?


Posted: Tuesday, January 05, 2010

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

Perhaps the best place to begin our article is in Uganda in 1879. A Catholic mission had been started and established there a few years. King Mwanga was not familiar with Christianity and started no interference until one of them, Joseph Mkasa, corrected him for the life he was living. He was a known homosexual and was also known to be involved with his young pages. He became angry andgrew into resentment and hatred towards Mkasa and his religion. Some of his officers fueled his anger by speaking against Mkasa whether truth or not. He was beheaded on November 18, 1885.

After the death of Mkasa, another Catholic became the teacher of the kings pages and later when the king learned that several of his pages were Catholic, he called in Denis Sebuggwawo and asked if he had been teaching the pages Christianity. When Denis admitted that he had, the king threw a spear through his throat. He yelled that no one was to leave his headquarters. Later that night Charles Lwanga secretly baptized four other pages in an isolated room. The king then gathered the pages and others and asked who were Christians. Some seventeen answered "until death". The king then made them walk 37 miles to a place of execution and had them thrown into a huge fire. He then ordered all Catholics and protestants to be killed.

The preceding bit of history is simply to give a bit of background for the present day problems of Uganda. The entire situation has come to the forefront since the appointment of Kevin Jennings as a top official of the Department of Education. Jennings has said he was inspired to lead a life of homosexual activism by one Harry Hay. Hay was a strong supporter of NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association) and is considered by many homosexuals as the founder of their movement. He was also member of the U.S. Communist Party.

The liberal media has passed over this connection by writing critical and false statements concerning the homosexual controversy now going on in Uganda. The government of Uganda is considering passing a tougher law concerning certain homosexually related crimes. The New York Times stated that the bill would, "impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior." Other media have published much the same misinformation. The facts are that the proposed bill does have strong punishments for crimes committed by homosexuals but the death sentence is reserved for crimes such as pedophilia, pederasty, homosexual parent/child incest, knowingly spreading AIDS or homosexual abuse of a disabled person.

This bill has not yet passed into law and is causing much controversy. Many think it is too harsh, yet many think capital punishment itself is too harsh, regardless of the crime. Many feel that rehabilitation should be considered before punishment and many other such variables. The chances are the punishments will become much lighter before the bill is passed.

HIV/AIDS has been, and still is, epidemic in Uganda, and it is for this reason the law is being considered and some contend that where such epidemic is rampant, extreme measures must be taken.

The international community has praised Uganda for it's fight against AIDS but in the meantime they have excluded homosexuals from their treatment program which has perpetuated the epidemic. There is much controversy in their country and it is not known what will be the final outcome. It is world problems such as this which need to be helped rather than wasting trillions on foolish programs which do not work. For further information on this subject, you may visit the website of the Pambazuka News: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/34365

Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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» left by Joel Hendon
 2 years 118 days ago.
Gregory, I was only trying to bring out the facts of this situation with some background of the Ugandan outlook of homosexauality. The reason the thing caught my eye to begin with was that a couple of headlines read something like this: "Ugandan Law would execute some for homosexual activity", making it appear that if anyone were homosexual, he was dead meat. But that is not it at all. The law may be far to strtict in some cases but the death penalty is reserved for those who commit a criminal act. Such as child rape, knowingly  having sex while infected with HIV (which the country is overrun with) without telling the partner of it. This sort of thing.
 
The foolish programs I was referring to was such as bailing out banks, auto manufacturers, pouring billions into stimulous packages which had no cance of working,etc.
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