On May 26th, Uganda’s parliament signed into law the “Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023”, which prescribes life imprisonment for homosexuality and the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, as well as harsh penalties for the “promotion” of homosexuality.
The West’s reaction was swift.
President Biden called the Act the “the latest development in an alarming trend of human rights abuses and corruption in Uganda”, and said that his administration is considering the “application of sanctions”. Likewise, EU Foreign Affairs Representative Joseph Borell described the Act as “contrary to international human rights law”, and said that Uganda’s failure to protect its citizens “will undermine relationships with international partners”.
Now, I should mention that I agree with Biden and Borell: homosexuality should not be illegal. Yet I can’t help but notice their glaring hypocrisy.
Here are some of the countries where homosexuality is currently illegal: Nigeria, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar and the UAE. Notice anything? They’re some of Europe’s biggest energy suppliers, and in the case of Saudi Arabia one of America’s most important “allies”.
When was the last time you heard the US threaten sanctions against Saudi Arabia for its stance on gay rights? And how brave of the EU to condemn Uganda’s law, while buying billions of dollars of energy from Qatar and the UAE!
Uganda’s problem isn’t that it’s blatantly denying rights to gay people; it’s that it’s doing so without being able to offer anything to the West. Perhaps if the country managed to raise oil and gas production, they could pass anti-gay legislation without the threat of sanctions. Until then, they won’t have any such luck.
Western leaders’ double standards actually undermine their efforts to promote gay rights, since people can see they’re not willing to pay a cost. “So you care about gay rights – just not enough to stop buying energy?” And good luck to the politician who runs on the platform, “Let’s stop buying energy from the Middle East until they respect gay rights. Who needs an economy, anyway?”
The fundamental problem for Europe is that, with the exception of Norway, all the countries able to offer them energy have a habit bit of either bombing their neighbours or not respecting human rights. And that isn’t about to change.
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Look at the list and recall their dominant relion. Then reflect that so many who promote LGBQXYZ+ also claim to support (promote?) homosexual “Gay” acts. Do they really think they will be allowed to continue such practices if the Muslim voters become a majority?
And what is the predominant religion of all those soldier-age economic immigrants that we are importing in to our Christian country?
Nailed it.
The fact that Uganda gets a drubbing when the others hardly get a finger wagging is because it is primarily Christian.
And not Justin Welby or Pope Francis “Christian”.
I have nothing much against what happens in private between consenting adults.
But do the promoters of very public and very blatant perversion imagine that there would be no pushback?
Saudi Arabia and the rest are amongst my very least favourite regimes. I am bemused that they don’t use the power oil and gas gives them to point out the moral shortcomings of the LGBTQUERTY+ promoters.
But of course, many little boys could (if they were brave or foolish enough) bear winess to where the Billionaire Sheiks can, and do, stick it.
And that is what climate change is all about. Ending reliance on fossil fuels the west doesn’t have and that confers so much power to these “illiberal” states.
Correction, takes power away from western elites and state agents (not the west) and transfers it to elites from other countries who are getting a bit too upity.
In the current polarised climate, if you aren’t into supporting the alphabet lobby, places like Uganda begin to look like a good place to live a quiet life!
Uganda is supposedly set to become a significant oil exporter soon, with an in-country oil refinery, although this has been a very long time coming.
It’s been a long time coming because eco-colonialists are doing everything they can to stop construction of a pipeline allowing Uganda to export their oil, no doubt backed by the IMF World Bank etc. refusing to provide finance. These people would rather see Ugandans remain poor and forced to chop down wildlife rich forests for charcoal to “save the planet”. The Chinese are likely to fund and help build the pipeline in return for most of the oil and increased influence in the region, chances are they’ll fund an export terminal in Tanzania that can double up as a naval base to expand their presence into the Indian Ocean.
And at the top of the anti gay countries list 2023! Let’s see how many the west chose to complain about!
https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/#maptab
It’s almost like we need to, I dunno, end our inane and insane addiction to fossil fuels (especially foreign oil) and phase them out (the right way, that is). But hey, what do I know, I’m just the 800 pound guerrilla in the room.
To the downvoters: you know I’m right.
There is no means of replacing “fossil” fuels, so you’re wrong.
The UK has the means to replace a lot of imported fossil fuels, i.e. fracking and proper support for the North Sea oil and gas industry.
In UK, we have an abundance of fossil fuels, thank you very much.
But extremely few politicians whose IQ scores exceed their hat size. They – and their credulous supporters – are the inane and insane ones.
Hydrocarbon energy is not derived from flocking fossils.
It is abiotic self creating. Educate yourself and lose the Rockefeller terminology.
I regard the legalisation of male homosexual activity in the UK as the start of a slippery slope that was always intended to result in legalised child-rape, so I feel no urge to criticise Uganda.
Ah, that old chestnut again. A tired, old canard with zero evidence to back it up.
Note that virtually all of the countries with *de facto* legal child rape to one degree or another (mostly countries that conservatives in the West claim to dislike) are generally the very same countries that also happen to outlaw homosexuality, interestingly enough.
(And let’s not forget the Vatican’s infamous rank hypocrisy, to say the least, of Biblical proportions on this very issue as well.)
(Mic drop)
Clearly there has been a steady change in the approach to sexual deviance: we’re now at the point where it is glorified and there are massive attempts to sexualise pre-pubertal children.
I think this was intended from the beginning because all of the other assaults on European Christian civilisation have been decades in the planning and implementation. I can’t see why this would be any different.
I suppose you support the Biblical punishment for homosexuality i.e. death by stoning assuming there’s any stones left after dealing with anyone who has sex outside of marriage, works on the sabbath, takes the name of a bigoted genocidal tribal deity in vain etc.
Zing! Check, and mate.
What business does Joe Biden have with domestic politics in Uganda? None, I would think.
Not many brown envelopes on offer?
Ah..the sanctions….good old USA. Why not?….you already sanction a third of humanity arbitrarily and illegally, forcing death, starvation and economic collapse onto millions….what’s new?
Or failing that, such countries get “liberated” via “regime change”.