Bahati - Bill

I hate to say it, but I'm gonna say it: Uganda is scratched from my list of travelplans.
It's not the country, really. I'm sure it is beautiful.
It's the Bahati - bill I read for breakfast.
I can say it doesn't sit well with me. I'm trying not to choke on it.
Every word of it I have read. Every chilling, venom-filled word.

See, Avaaz.org dropped me an email this morning. If I please wanted to sign a petition against afore mentioned bill.

Of course I started investigating. I'm big on human rights, and women's and gay rights in particular. (might be more understandable if I tell you I'm a bisexual woman.)
But anyway - if I am asked to sign something, I want to know the who, the what, the wherefore and the why.

Well, after reading all that, I won't be hungry untill dinner, for sure.

See, Mr Bahati here wants to play a new game: 'Out the Gay.'
To imprison them, or kill them.
Oddly enough I'm gay enough to slightly dislike that idea. Yep, I'm being tactful here.

(Be grateful for that)

This bill basically makes even the inténtion of having gay sex or a gay relationship, a crime. People that knów gays are supposed to turn them in within 24 hours and people that actually hélp gays in whatever ways, face a fine, imprisonment for minimal five and maximum seven years, or both.

Of course I signed.
This bill should nót become law.
If it does.....

The thought in my mind is: we hád a Holocaust. And if this Bahati-bill will be turned into law - will we then have a Homocaust?

The thought is chilling.

Read the bill.
Sign the petition.

Not just for gays - but for human rights in general.
Everything in this bill is a flagrant dismissal of human rights.

Go see for yourself.

http://wthrockmorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/anti-homosexuality-bill-2009.pdf

To sign the petition:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_for_tolerance_2/?cl=471955749&v=5361