Quote: (02-25-2014 04:05 PM)megatron Wrote:
Quote: (02-25-2014 03:33 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
People are going to end up dying over this crap.
http://m.smh.com.au/world/ugandan-newspa...hvdsp.html
The last portion also mentions a crack down on pornography and provocative dress.
American style evangelical Christianity is blowing up there. In a way it's a shame. While the west is abandoning religion and moving towards reason and secular, liberal (in the freedom sense, not political sense) humanism, black minds are essentially being colonized from a far by white evangelicals trying to shape Africa the way they want it to be. And the sad thing is they are buying it.
Several African countries have been successful in significantly lowering HIV infection rates precisely because they've pushed Christian monogamous marriages and morality.
Not too sure what's so great Western style "humanism." The west is economically and morally in rapid decline. Half of all births are illegitimate. Tons of people on welfare and growing. I know it's good out there for the players, but that's about it. Tons of children are growing up fucked up.
I see your point, but is government imposed fascism the answer? Government telling people what they can do in their bedroom and what they can look at on the internet? I'll pass. And I don't think the choice is between authoritarianism and liberal social decay. There's some reasonable ground in the middle.
Plus did you read the article? Why are newspapers posting names and addresses of people suspected of being gay? So that angry mobs will kill them? Of course that's the reason. That's a pretty fucked up society. I would not want to be any kind of minority living in a place like that. But that's also what they did to ethnic minorities under Idi Amin. So no surprise there I guess.