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November 21, 2009
Draconian
Symon Hill, associate director of the religion and society thinktank Ekklesia, has started a petition opposing the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” (link to pdf file of the bill) proposed in Uganda.
I cite a Guardian article on the anti-homosexuality bill as the wording of the petition itself strikes me to be inflammatory and somewhat obscure. Nonetheless, it seems to me the bill not only offends common decency but also common sense.
Under the anti-homosexuality bill, now going through parliament, anyone repeatedly "caught" having sex with someone of the same sex faces the death penalty, while people who touch each other in a "gay way" could be jailed.
A clause in the bill also punishes anyone who fails to report an offence within 24 hours of witnessing or finding out about it.
By contrast: Not that I am opposed to draconian punishments per se. For example, having been released on compassionate grounds and survived his three month prognosis, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, his friends, family and neighbours should all be nuked from orbit (and you know why).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 21, 2009 08:44 AM
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