Comments on: Silence = Death

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:16:25 +0000

So it’s god’s will to visit Africa with a bible and bugger all the little kids, but homosexuality is eeeevil. I’ve seen the same sort of thing in Asia; in some cultures the homosexuals are just another part of the community, but those muslims and christians barge in and barbarize the people telling lies about god and about teh gayz.

By: noel

noel — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:33:25 +0000

I am the “abomination” referred to. I lived in Cameroon for two years (Peace Corps). Was told that homosexuality was illegal and punishable by death (not sure if literally true). Never heard of any enforcement. Their politicians use it for the same purpose that ours use the issue: to extract votes from the credulous and the scapegoaters, who seeth with shame and hate. The missionaries I knew there, creepy as they were (they had a “white man’s burden” attitude), certainly would not have condoned this barbaric law, but they should take responsibility for the idea and denounce it.
Funny thing is, people that denounce homosexuality so vehemently, tend not to see it. They look for something obvious and hideous, like a bad drag queen. Also, my (Cameroonian) male colleagues wanted to be seen walking down mainstreet holding my hand (!).

By: Ray Ingles

Ray Ingles — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:58:38 +0000

To paraphrase Babbage, ‘I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a proposal.’

That kind of unthinking, unjustified (unjustifiable) hatred is just… incomprehensible.

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:05:17 +0000

This story has been developing for a while. It looks like Exodus International will soon have blood on their hands for their involvement. There has been particularly good coverage over at Box Turtle Bulletin. TRiG.