Annet Kezaabu, the chairperson of the Anti-Pornographic Control Committee on the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity
It has reportedly warned that members of the LGBTQ+ group are focusing on faculties to “recruit, groom and initiate” youngsters into homosexuality.
According to the overwhelmingly uncritical Ugandan media,
She claimed that these youngsters are “recruited” into this “vice” by way of items and cash provided to them by LGBTQ+ people.
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Kezaabu’s claims echo these of Church of Uganda Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu that had been included in his Christmas message, lately delivered in Kampala.
“I want to alert all students, parents, and teachers that there are bad people trying to attract children into homosexuality by promising them money and sponsorship,” stated Mugalu.
“To those who are recruiting children into homosexuality, I want to sound a very strong warning to you. These are not my words, but the words of Jesus: ‘If anyone causes one of these little ones…to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea,’” he asserted.
Mugalu known as on the federal government “to set up a simple system whereby children can report these people to the relevant authorities who can investigate and take appropriate action”.
In a response to the archbishop’s deeply irresponsible phrases.
Ugandan LGBTQ+ advocate, Dr Frank Mugisha, wrote that the Anglican cleric was scapegoating LGBTQ+ people.
This homophobic slur not solely threatens but additionally places this already susceptible group in mortal hazard.
“It’s no surprise that these attacks come at the tail end of the year when churchgoers are supposed to be asking for the annual accountability. Queer people would be the perfect red-herring as the subject is evocative of both ignorance and emotion. Ideally, it’s a go-to for anyone who is seeking a public relations re-birth,” stated Mugisha.
He famous that Mugalu’s sentiments “are not merely words of any Tom, Dick, or Harry. They are selectively chosen words by a person in a position of authority who commands so much influence.”
Mugisha added: “This ‘homophobic’ slur not only threatens but also puts this already vulnerable community in mortal danger.”
The perception that LGBTQ+ people are predators of kids is used to demonise and persecute the queer group.
It is predicated on the faulty perception that homosexuality is a deviant realized behaviour that may be “taught” to others.
Homosexuality is, actually, a romantic and sexual attraction that’s innate to some people and is a standard variation of human sexuality.
This narrative, broadly promoted by right-wing American spiritual teams in Africa,
Also paints efforts to safe equal human rights for LGBTQ+ people as a world conspiracy to “corrupt” and “recruit” youngsters.
It’s this misguided and unquestioned pondering that has helped make Uganda one of many world’s most authoritarian nations in relation to the LGBTQ+ group.
Colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex intimacy permits the state to punish anybody discovered responsible of the “offence” with life in jail.
The nation’s Parliament has repeatedly tried to enact even more oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ legal guidelines however these efforts have to this point failed.
In August final yr, the authorities shut down the operations of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a number one LGBTQ+ rights group within the nation.
Article by Luiz De Barros
