Uganda: the latest not so gay-friendly destination

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I heard they were doing this to try and cut back the AIDS virus? That continent has lost hundreds of thousands of lives to HIV and are trying to get this epidemic under control. That in no way excuses killing gays, but I don't think they are doing it from Hate. Rick Warren and some other ministers and pastors are trying to intervene and get this changed. Killing is not the answer.

12-23-2009 @ 10:57AM

JOU said...

Glorious, tens of millions of people have died from AIDS in the Africa, not "hundreds of thousands".

There are countries in Africa where more than one third of the adult population is HIV positive. Gays have very little, if anything, to do with the African AIDS epidemic and making homosexuality punishable by death will have zero effect on the spread of AIDS. Persecution of gays is very common in African cultures.

There is practically no way to curb the spreading of AIDS in Africa. Simply too many uneducated people, poor or non-existent women's rights and archaic religions (mainly Islam and some forms of Christianity) which prevent the use of condoms.

Anyone who travels to Africa should consider that potentially every people they meet is HIV positive and act accordingly.

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