Many commentators from the rich West have condemned the continuing persecution of homosexuals in Uganda. They speak from a position of privilege. Here in England, it is very unlikely that you will die from any sexually transmitted disease. In Uganda, since the appearance of Aids some thirty years ago, over a million people have died from Aids. Even now, Aids kills around 50,000 people a year.
Like it or not, uncomfortable truth though it may be, there is a link between Aids and male homosexual behaviour. Back in the early days the joke was that AIDS stood for Arse Injected Death Syndrome, because it was predominantly a male homosexual disease.
In Africa, millions of people have died of Aids, heterosexual as well as homosexual.
Millions of people have changed their sexual habits, giving up the chance of sexual adventure in order to survive, taking up abstinence and monogamy so their society does not die.
The decadent West with its consumer sexuality likes to sneer, but there were similar developments here a century ago. Until the discovery of penicillin in 1928, venereal disease was a serious matter, destroying and ending millions of lives. Many English people chose to live chastely and monogamously.
The Ugandans rightly fear sex tourism. They can see the hell holes of Asia, with both male and female child prostitutes, frequented by Western and Japanese perverts.
Or the Ugandans could end up like Haiti? I don't think they want to.
Do you want your children to be whores? Do you want your home to be the world's brothel?
And before you complain that I am revoltingly prejudiced, do some research! See the attitude of such PC luminaries as Harriet Harman and Peter Tatchell, and ask yourself if the Ugandans are wise to keep the easy liberalism of the West at arm's length.
For them, it is a matter of life and death.
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