Look: Comparing Gays To ‘Mongols,’ Ugandan President Ridiculously ‘Explains’ Homosexuality

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The President of Uganda has penned a rambling, ridiculous, and wildly ignorant letter to Parliament that purports to explain why gay people exist, and asks the horrific question of what to do with them.

President Yoweri Museveni wrote the letter in response to Parliament last month illegally passing the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB), better known as the “Kill the Gays” bill.

While some reports state the death penalty for the “crime” of being gay has been removed, this has never been proven.

Today, media outlets have been reporting that Museveni vetoed the bill — which is false. Others reported that he “blocked” the bill. This is not accurate, either.

In short, Museveni has taken no action whatsoever on the bill, other than to write a seven-page letter (below) that also accuses Parliament of “repeatedly” not following parliamentary rules.

But — aside from even considering to allow the bill to become law — it’s Museveni’s “intellectual” pondering and outlandish — even childish — theories that should give the world pause.

Ultimately, President Museveni compares gay people to “Mongols” and “Albinos,” and blames homosexuality on “random breeding,” “sexual starvation,” and financial distress. He also falsely claims being gay can be cured, but supports life in prison for gay people.

“A homosexual is somebody who is abnormal because the normal person was created to be attracted to the opposite sex in order to procreate and perpetuate the human race,” Museveni, who is about 69-years old and a Christian, proclaims.

And then, if that weren’t enough, Museveni gets weird.

“Who creates albinos? Is it not the same god that creates other people — Black Africans and Europeans? Do Albinos create themselves? No. Simply, nature goes wrong in a minority of cases,” Museveni writes.

He then details Ugandan “indigenous science” to classify “these abnormalities.”

Albinos are callednyamagoye. Homosexuals are called ebitiingwa or ebisiyiyagyi (Luganda). Epilepsy is called entsiimbo. A barren women [sic] is called enguumba (in the past it was not widely known that men could also beenguumba). There is another abnormality known as “epa” — where a woman does not achieve puberty by not developing breasts (amabeere), pubic hair (enza), hairs in the arm-pit (ebyakyeeri) or menstruate (okuzira). There are Mongols (ebigoori-goori), etc., etc. In Runyankore some of these are called amahano. In the pre-colonial times, I think, some of these were killed, especially epa. So were even lighter cases of, for instances, pre-marital pregnancy, ebinyandaalo. These abnormalities are different from disability, obumuga or oburema. The other is eihano (abnormal) and the other is ekimuga or ekirema(disabled). The difference is that a disabled person is a normal person but who got disabled in some aspect. Eihano is abnormal fundamentally mainly because the hormones malfunctioned.

And then, he gets ugly.

The question at the core of the debate of the homosexuals is: “What do we do with an abnormal person? Do we kill him/her? Do we imprison him/her? Or do we contain him/her?”

In the traditional society, it is not very clear whether they would kill these abnormal people. What is clear is that they would try to contain these abnormalities by being particular about the person they married (okushweera) or got married to (kushweerwa). They used to kutaasha (report on the qualities of the intended bride). Unfortunately, this has been interfered with by the concept of “falling in love at first sight” grabbed by our “modern” women and men. This is a big mistake. What do you know about problems (blemishes — emizze) of the person you have fallen in love with at first sight?

I suspect this has been the problem in Europe and the West. Even there, they had the same principles in the past — of careful selection. They, however, abandoned these in preference for money initially and, eventually, for just, freelance bonding. It may be this that has increased the phenomena of the abnormal sexual conduct. The abnormal people have increased.

These are just excerpts, most of which were transcribed by Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin.

Read the entire letter below, thanks to J. Lester Feder and Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed.

 

President Museveni’s Letter on Anti-Homosexuality Bill by Chris Geidner

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