Uganda's Stance on Homosexuality: Cultural Preservations and Legal Controversy

Oof. This is kind of hard to really crack the shell on. But let’s talk about it.

If you haven’t heard, Uganda has banned LGBTQ and anyone remotely identifying as gay or trans can no longer do so ... life imprisonment being the punishment.

They are establishing a wall of the mind in the legal system.

In America, there is the “legal reality” that people can be gay or straight or whatever they want.

It’s protected to have that experience.

How this conflicts with the “biological reality” is a different conversation altogether that I’m not going into at the moment.

In Uganda, there is officially no legal reality for homosexuals.

They are not protected.

On one side of the argument in favor of Uganda, here’s the thing … I actually get it, I really do.

Uganda wants the entire country on the same page.

However, America wants us in a book that can no longer be read in Uganda, do you see?

Uganda I think is keeping in mind what it’s seeing in the outside world … the confusion, the lack of direction, the sad downfall of men in modern day society.

I think they also see that if you give an inch in the legal system, a mile may or may not be taken.

The same issue comes in with firearms although with a different set of clothes.

I’m reminded of a concept I once heard.

Let’s say I draw a line in the sand.

I can use the distraction of a much more complicated problem to move my line in the sand forward and all is none the wiser.

For example, firearms have X restrictions.

A tragedy happens in a school.

I push harder for restrictions on the guns using the tragedy as a jump pad – for the game nerds out there listening.

No one goes with the hardest restrictions I pushed for … but what I get away with is I get to push the line another inch forward with a slightly stronger restriction than it was before wherever that line was … and where it goes now, no one argues otherwise.

Inch by inch I keep pushing the line in the sand forward until before you know it, the number of tragedies building creates every opportunity for the people of this country to lose all rights to what needs protection in its entirety.

I’m not saying that as some sort of ill-tempered complaint.

I think the political system is running on all cylinders and if you want rights for who you are, you have to fight, politically speaking, for them.

Now, with leaps forward in consciousness and technology and possibility as well as on top of that complexity, Uganda I think intends to hold itself intact by virtue of the war it’s waging on homosexuality.

That is, Uganda doesn’t look like it’s going to budge an inch.

Its not necessarily arguing a scientific approach though I think one will in fact be utilized.

Its holding to the values of its people, the stories those people have passed down, and the culture that’s come preserved with it.

One last story I want to share with you.

It’s of a father, his son and their camel.

Once upon a time, they are all walking together down a path, the father on the back of the camel and the son walking beside them.

A passerby sees this and complains, “look at that man, making his child walk. How sad of a scene.”

So they change places.

Another passerby coming the other way sees this and again another complaint saying, “oh look at that. Poor old man has to walk while his strong child is taking a seat in this weather.”

So they both get off and start walking next to the camel.

You know what happens next, right?

A passerby sees this and has sad feelings for the camel, “Oh look at that poor animal having to carry everything while this strong man and young son do nothing but walk beside it.”

Do you see?

This world lives in a time where each state of the United States is wrong to another state.

Each country of the world is wrong to another.

And every stance anyone takes someone else will have a complaint about.

I’m not saying there aren’t hard no’s, there are.

I’m also not arguing for or against the legal reality or the scientific approach or the biological reality or anything of that in this post.

That’s for another day.

I’m just trying to point out that the country I call home has its own way of doing things and regardless of what the country argues about amongst itself, I don’t see it EVER being okay with homosexuals being imprisoned for loving and fucking who they love and they fuck.

I also don’t see my country wanting to start a war.

While the United States people in my experience have a preference towards minding their own business, if ANY LEVEL of homicide or genocide against a people of any sort for who they are -as long as it’s not contained in those hard no’s- is going on in a country that kills for its values, I can’t see this not being brought to the table for discussion on the governmental plane in the United States.