But I really do believe that people need to come out explicitly against it. Obviously here I guess you can believe that good people don’t want people dead for just being gay, but in African terms it isn’t that obvious. The international message here has to be precise and unmistakable.

This bill could be defeated and denounced time and time again, but until the international community works on fixing the views of HIV and homosexuality are dealt with, the bill will just rise from the flames every time. Simply denouncing the bill IS him doing nothing, he’s actually looking to act in the deeper problem and these attacks on him that I’ve seen for it really raise my ire.

He almost completely skirts the issue of the proposed legislation. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that people outright denounce the proposed bill. It’s a terrible piece of hateful legislation and it should be named as such by people who care. If he meant to denounce it, he did a terrible job.

But you say “This bill isn’t make-believe or a mere inconvenience, as Bill Gates would have us believe.” And that is NOT AT ALL what he said. What he said, was not that we should do nothing. What he said is that the way to deal with this situation is “it’s not about the law on the books; it’s about getting the message out and the new tools.” That sounds like his is actually more involved with than simply against the law. That rather than fighting a symptom of this disease, we should actually fight the disease. A far cry from “good men doing nothing”

And this has been my problem with the entirety of the coverage of Mr. Gate’s remarks, is that ever article I have come across as, as blatantly as you did, willfully ignored his actual statement to detract from him. He never called it make believe, he never called it just an “inconvenience.” He said that the root of the problem is the problem, not the weeds that grow from it.

But

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” (Edmund Burke, usually quoted as “‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”)

I want the good people out there to do something. That is all.

So keep pretending that he’s a horrible person if you want, but actually hear what he has to say before you go and take everything that can be bad out of context, out of context.

Big Oil is considering pulling out of Nigeria because it is too costly. All we have to do is ensure that it is too costly for them to do business in Uganda. Please remember that homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda, and that all this bill does is put people to death for it. All that the Ugandan Parliament has to do is refuse to take this bill up and this will die down. Or had you never figured that one out?

BTW, Spartans- that is the real Spartans- embraced homosexuality. It was considered right and proper for a warrior to have a special buddy among the warriors that he slept with. He didn’t get married until he was thirty, and even then, his special male friend was closer to him than his wife. You might want to look up your history before you take on a name that is so enmeshed in old time homosexuality.

You guys have a lot of time on your hands or sure have an agenda, especially Melanie Nathan. Melanie, I am inviting you to Uganda on behalf of the 95% of Ugandans who oppose legalisation of homosexuality. Never mind the more outrageous clauses of the bill like reporting homosexuals or the death penalty for ‘aggravated rape’. Those won’t pass the committee stage of Parliament. This is a Private Member’s Bill , remember?

To the uninitiated, that means that the views therein are the views of one person out of 30 million Ugandans. So you heterophobes should direct your anger towards the author.

Doing business in at a time like this shows implicit approval of where that country is headed.

I have a request in with the Irish offices right now for a statement, or someone to speak to on the matter.

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