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   From: dthomas@zazzle.com   
      
   It seems the topic of homosexuals was provoked by the arrogant   
   and careless Western groups that are fond of coming into our   
   schools and recruiting young children into homosexuality and   
   lesbianism, just as they carelessly handle other issues   
   concerning Africa.   
      
   Initially, I did not pay much attention to it because I was busy   
   with the immediate issues of defence, security, electricity, the   
   roads, the railways, factories, modernization of agriculture,   
   etc.   
      
   When, eventually, I concentrated my mind on it, I distilled   
   three problems:   
      
   1. those who were promoting homo-sexuality and recruiting normal   
   people into it;   
      
   2. as a consequence of No. 1 above, many of those recruited were   
   doing so for mercenary reasons – to get money – in effect   
   homosexual prostitutes; these mercenary homosexual prostitutes   
   had to be punished;   
      
   3. homosexuals exhibiting themselves; Africans are flabbergasted   
   by exhibitionism of sexual acts – whether heterosexual or   
   otherwise and for good reason. Why do you exhibit your sexual   
   conduct? Are you short of opportunity for privacy – where you   
   can kiss, fondle (kukirigiita, kwagaaga) etc.? Are we interested   
   in seeing your sexual acts – we the Public? I am not able to   
   understand the logic of the Western Culture. However, we   
   Africans always keep our opinions to ourselves and never seek to   
   impose our point of view on the others. If only they could let   
   us alone.   
      
   It was my view that the above three should be punished harshly   
   in order to defend our society from disorientation.   
      
   Therefore, on these three I was in total accord with the MPs and   
   other Ugandans. I had, however, a problem with Category 4 or   
   what I thought was category 4 – those “born” homosexual. I   
   thought there were such people – those who are either genetic or   
   congenital homosexuals. The reason I thought so was because I   
   could not understand why a man could fail to be attracted to the   
   beauties of a woman and, instead, be attracted to a fellow man.   
   It meant, according to me, that there was something wrong with   
   that man – he was born a homosexual – abnormal.   
      
   I, therefore, thought that it would be wrong to punish somebody   
   because of how he was created, disgusting though it may be to us.   
      
   That is why I refused to sign the Bill. In order to get to the   
   truth, we involved Uganda Scientists as well as consulting   
   Scientists from outside   
      
   Uganda. My question to them was: “Are there people that are   
   homosexual right from birth?”. After exhaustive studies, it has   
   been found that homosexuality is in two categories:   
      
   there are those who engage in homosexuality for mercenary   
   reasons on account of the under – developed sectors of our   
   economy that cause people to remain in poverty, the great   
   opportunities that abound not withstanding;   
      
   and then there are those that become homosexual by both nature   
   (genetic) and nurture (up-bringing).   
      
   The studies that were done on identical twins in Sweden showed   
   that 34% – 39% were homosexual on account of nature and 66% were   
   homosexual on account of nurture.   
      
   Therefore, even in those studies, nurture was more significant   
   than nature. Can somebody be homosexual purely by nature without   
   nurture? The answer is: “No”. No study has shown that. Since   
   nurture is the main cause of homosexuality, then society can do   
   something about it to discourage the trends. That is why I have   
   agreed to sign the Bill.   
      
   Since Western societies do not appreciate politeness, let me   
   take this opportunity to warn our people publicly about the   
   wrong practices indulged in and promoted by some of the   
   outsiders. One of them is “oral sex”. Our youth should reject   
   this because God designed the human being most appropriately for   
   pleasurable, sustainable and healthy sex.   
      
   Some of the traditional styles are very pleasurable and healthy.   
   The mouth is not engineered for that purpose except kissing.   
      
   Besides, it is very unhealthy. People can even contract   
   gonorrhea of the mouth and throat on account of so-called “oral   
   sex”, not to mention worms, hepatitis E, etc. The Ministry of   
   Gender and Youth should de-campaign this buyayism imported from   
   outside and sensitize the youth about the healthy life style   
   that is abundant in our cultures. We reject the notion that   
   somebody can be homosexual by choice; that a man can choose to   
   love a fellow man; that sexual orientation is a matter of choice.   
      
   Since my original thesis that there may be people who are born   
   homosexual has been disproved by science, then the homosexuals   
   have lost the argument in Uganda. They should rehabilitate   
   themselves and society should assist them to do so.   
      
   Yoweri K. Museveni Gen. (Rtd)   
   P R E S I D E N T   
   24th February, 2014.   
      
   http://www.independent.co.ug/ugandatalks/2014/02/president-   
   musevenis-statement-during-signing-of-anti-homo-bill/?Itemid=410   
      
       
      
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