From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014
John writes via my Facebook timeline: “Fr.Beste, President Museveni claims that practice of homosexuality has never existed in African culture. I was told Mwanga practiced homosexuality in Uganda and those who resisted were killed, hence Uganda martyrs. What is your say on this?”
John you are quite right. President Museveni claims that some homosexuals may take up the behaviour as an open choice, for others it may be due to indoctrination. He further claims that the present fad of sexual exhibitionism, both heterosexual and homosexual is alien and repugnant to most African cultures.
Kabaka Daniel Mwanga (1884 -1897) was widely believed in most historical circles as having been a gay man. Mwanga is the grandfather of the current Kabaka of Buganda, one of the most influential regions in Uganda, both political and economically.
Mwanga is widely known for having killed 22 early converts to Christianity in Buganda in 1886 because they refused to have homosexual practices with them. He accused them of usurping his power by refusing to have homosexual sex with them. The executed Christians have since come to be known as Uganda Martyrs.
It is also to be noted that the current Kabaka, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II commands high esteem among his subjects and anti-gay forces have in the past pressured the Kingdom to condemn the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009 with no success.
The man behind the push for Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009 is not Museveni himself. He is Rev Fr Simon Lokodo, the minister of Ethics and Integrity who has been dragged to court for raiding and forcing a gay rights conference in Entebbe close last year was also at the meeting.
He defended his actions by claiming that the meeting was aimed at promoting and luring young people into the practice of homosexuality.
Rev Fr Simon Lokodo is a Roman Catholic priest from Kotido Diocese who quit priesthood to join politics. He is the current State Minister for Ethics and Integrity in the Office of the President who also pushed for Pornography Bill barring women from wearing miniskirts.
He was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. He replaced Nsaba Butoro, who was dropped from the Cabinet. Prior to that, he served as the Sate Minister for Industry from February 2009 at the time Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009 until May 2011.
He is elected Member of Parliament, representing “Dodoth County”, Kaabong District. He was first elected to that position on June 29, 2006. He was born in Kaabong District on October 28, 1957. He holds the degree of BA in Theology from Pontifical Urbaniana University and MA in Theology from the University of Rome.
He also holds a Certificate in the German Language obtained from an institution in Austria and a Certificate in the French Language, obtained from an institution in Paris, France.
Before entering politics in June 2006, at the age of 49 years, he was the Parish Priest for Kaabong Parish in the Diocese of Kotido. He was ex- communicated from the Catholic Church by the former Pope Benedict XVI when he joined politics.
He is well known for his unequivocal position to fight homosexuality in all forms and recently even raided with the Police, a gay activist workshop where participants were arrested. He immediately blamed foreigners saying “they should go home” and that “He does not support bestiality and lesbianism”. Amnesty International condemned the raid.
U.S. President Barack Obama warned that enacting the bill would affect relations between the two nations. He described the proposal as an “affront and a danger to the gay community” in Uganda. The U.S. is among the nation’s largest donors.
The Uganda Joint Christian Council, which includes Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox bishops, had called on parliament to move the notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill forward. Click here The Daily Monitor to read more.
Speaking after their annual conference organised by the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC), an ecumenical body which brings together the Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox churches, the bishops resolved that the parliamentary committee on Gender should be tasked to engage the House on the Bill.
The clerics also appealed to all the churches in the country “to remain steadfast in opposing the phenomena of homosexuality, lesbianism and same-sex union.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, known by many as the “kill-the-gays bill,” is one of the most notorious pieces of legislation in the world.
Pope Francis’ representative to Uganda seems to differ. He expressed his shock at lawmakers passing a bill that would see people imprisoned for life for having gay sex.
Papal Nuncio to Uganda Archbishop Michael Blume was written to by Divine Word Missionaries Brother Brian McLauchlin on 21 December 2009, asking him to speak to Catholic bishops in the country about the law’s potential to abuse people’s human rights.
Archbishop Blume wrote back to McLauchlin the same day, saying he was indeed concerned by the bill and reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to it. ‘It was only this morning that I found out about the action of the Parliament,’ Blume wrote.
Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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