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View Poll Results: Is Uganda's "kill the gays" bill a step in the right direction?
Yes 4 9.76%
No 37 90.24%
Not sure 0 0%
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:21 PM
 
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Africa is an entire continent; some areas are more prosperous and successful than others. Besides, it was the Europeans who came in and, for lack of a better verb, royally screwed everything up.
Back to topic.
It is the Africans in Uganda with the human rights abuses against gay people.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:24 PM
 
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You might want to brush up on history. That "law" is recent. Has nothing to do with what they did back then.
It has plenty to do with it, since Europeans brought Christianity to these countries and left them in ruin.

And, you completely missed the point I made. There are plenty of prosperous countries in Africa. Africa is a continent, it is not a country, so it would be best if you stopped conceiving of it as such.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:24 PM
 
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Ummmm....all these post against this man. Shouldn't the real outrage be aimed at the country of Uganda and their human rights abuse against gay people?????????
Uganda is their own country, so we're pretty limited in what we can do about them.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:25 PM
 
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Back to topic.
It is the Africans in Uganda with the human rights abuses against gay people.
Religious conservatism/extremism is the backbone of this bill. And we have Christianity to thank for that.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:25 PM
 
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Ummmm....all these post against this man. Shouldn't the real outrage be aimed at the country of Uganda and their human rights abuse against gay people?????????
I think there is plenty of outrage for both Uganda and anyone in the US who does anything besides denounce what Uganda is proposing.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:26 PM
 
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It has plenty to do with it, since Europeans brought Christianity to these countries and left them in ruin.

And, you completely missed the point I made. There are plenty of prosperous countries in Africa. Africa is a continent, it is not a country, so it would be best if you stopped conceiving of it as such.
LoL.

And, Christianity ruined Africa? Could be, but I don't really care about the reason. It is happening.

Btw, it's not just Uganda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wo...ality_laws.svg

Orange means life in prison, red means death penalty. I see a whole lot of red and orange in Africa.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:26 PM
 
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Religious conservatism/extremism is the backbone of this bill. And we have Christianity to thank for that.
it gives Christianity a bad name.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:28 PM
 
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LoL.

And, Christianity ruined Africa? Could be, but I don't really care about the reason. It is happening.
That's the problem. You don't care to understand the reasons. You just want to wipe your hands clean of any involvement and judge.
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:28 PM
 
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Uganda is their own country, so we're pretty limited in what we can do about them.
Ummmm....right. So then since they are their own country, we should have no concern over the thousands starving in poverty. If we can't be concerned over human rights abuse of gay people then we can't be concerned over starving people either because of government mismanaged economies....right? No more donations for any poor African country. No more of my tax dollars for any African country. They are their own country.......
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Old 01-05-2010, 03:29 PM
 
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it gives Christianity a bad name.
Christians do it to themselves. They've been doing this for centuries.
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