UGANDA ANTI-GAY BILL AUTHOR COMES TO JOBURG
A protest will be held in Johannesburg on Sunday to coincide with a visit to South Africa by David Bahati, the author of the Ugandan gay-death bill.
According to the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP), Bahati will be the country to take part in a television panel discussion debating gay rights on the continent, filmed by the BBC.
Bahati, a born again Christian, is the MP for the constituency of Ndorwa West and is a member of Uganda’s ruling party.
His Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which remains pending in Uganda’s parliament, would impose the death penalty on anyone who has consensual and safe sex with an HIV positive person or if found repeatedly guilty of “homosexual acts”.
He has also played a key role in inciting the ongoing anti-gay climate in Uganda which many believe led to the recent murder of activist David Kato.
LGEP called on activists, organisations and concerned individuals in Gauteng to join the protest.
“Bahati must be held personally responsible for the murder of Kato and the ongoing persecution of many others in Uganda simply on the basis of their sexuality and gender identity,” said LGEP.
It added: “This is a picket to send one clear message to Bahati, a message he must keep with him whilst in Johannesburg, in Uganda and everywhere he goes for the rest of his life! We say to Bahati: We are all David Kisule Kato! We are all Ugandan queers! We are queer, African and proud!”
The picket will take place outside the recording studios of Urban Brew, on 28 Harley Street, Ferndale, from 11.30am to 3.30pm on Sunday, 27 February.
The organisers added that the picket is not against the BBC or the producers of the show.
Scary…. Scary to think that our own two face government allows such a person into the country. Seems to me as if they support this idiot’s views. It’s only a matter of time before one of our own MP’s want’s the same here.
Will attend. Some of the Mr GSA organisers will attend.
Unacceptable. Even tolerance requires reasonable boundaries at some point. And calling for the murder of innocents is most definitely a great criterion for this type of boundary! He shouldn’t even be allowed to enter our country, let alone be given the chance to spew his fetid ideas onto television! To those who are able: make this thing’s stay here a nightmare, that he or other similar discriminators never visit here again.
Our passion for life must be shown to overwhelm his passion for death! This David Ba-“HATE”-i!
Picket. Please join tomorrow, Sunday!
The picket will take place outside the recording studios of Urban Brew, on 28 Harley Street, Ferndale, from 11.30am to 3.30pm on Sunday, 27 February.
F&$#@ the BBC!. And why are the organisers concerned about offending the BBC or show organizers? Do the BBC even care how much they offend US by asking this piece of s5$#t into our beautiful contry??
F%$@ them! They must refrain from sticking their tea-stained noses into the World’s affairs!! We don’t need them! The Empire has fallen. Get with the program. Queenie’s days are numbered.