Someone please tell me what rape (of any kind) and paedophilia has to do with homosexuality? It’s great, no doubt, that the sectors of the Ugandan press are raising more and more awareness of rape crimes (it’s a serious subject of course). But if you’re going to enforce an “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009” to counteract sexual abuse being perpetrated by homosexuals, you might as well put in an “Anti-Heterosexuality Bill” to put a chastity belt on all the straight people in the country looking to take advantage of their opposite sex. Make Uganda a “No-Sex” zone, and be done with sexual abuse altogether, because trust me, it happens, no matter what side of the field your people are playing on.

Provide better education, encourage a ‘nuclear’ family household, counselling, an NSPCC type vehicle – all pieces of a grand puzzle which sets out that difficult, but vital purpose of protecting all children from any sort of abuse. But why blame it all on the gays!? I just can’t comprehend how that is supposed to prevent the thousands of child defilement cases occurring in Uganda every year. I’m not saying wave the rainbow flag, but burning it won’t change much.

Okay, there is a myth, the biggest bulls**t myth I’ve ever heard, but a powerful one nonetheless – that having sex with a young child can “cleanse” one of HIV. But it is just as greater MYTH that this has lead to a rise in child rape by HIV-positive men. Where are the stats to support this? And what exactly are the origins of this baby HIV-cleansing myth? I don’t know what village idiot came up with it, but gay person or not, if 16 children were sexually abused daily in the first six months of 2009 (according to the African Network for Prevention against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) Uganda Chapter) - the fault does not lie with homosexuals – the fault lies with the Ugandan government, media, and education system; who all fail to make clear that sex with a baby is the HIV miracle cure.

I know it’s harder said than done – unfortunately if I was fly to Uganda and back gay rights to the beat of “Toss the Anti-Homosexuality Bill”, I would be writing a hypothetical “I AM GAY!” sign on my forehead; in turn being a spokesman for child rape… give me a break! It will take a group/nation effort to change engraved and ignorant mentalities, but it needs to be done before homosexuality gets completely buried underground altogether.

Words: Dwain Lucktung. Deputy editor, Ctrl.Alt.Shift. Visit www.dwainlucktung.blogspot.com for more of the Lucktung.
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