This is going to be a touchy subject from some people, and I can understand that. But I have to bring you the news as it is. The country of Uganda and many other countries around the world really don't care for the idea of homosexuality. Whether you want to admit it or not, homosexuals of any type only make up a very small number of people when compared to the total number of people on the planet. What supports my position is that according to the Kinsley Report only 10% of people are actually gay and the World Population Review states the following:
“The worldwide LGBTQ population by country reports estimate that approximately eight percent of the world identifies as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. Approximately 80 percent of the world identifies as heterosexual, and the remaining 12 percent of the world will not report how they identify. This data is as recent as 2021.”
So, the question that pops up is why are “straight people '' having to be exposed to it all the time especially when they have told their government and the entertainment industry that they don't want it?
Who knows? And one thing’s for sure the government of Uganda has actually up their foot down. Moreover, I'm not the type to entertain baseless conspiracy theories as to why (such as “the gay agenda”), but maybe the government of Uganda has a good reason for it and according to a Ugandan politician by the name of Asuman Basalirwa who brought the anti-homosexuality bill to his parliament in 2023:
“The objective of the bill was to establish a comprehensive and enhanced legislation to protect traditional family values, our diverse culture, our faiths, by prohibiting any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex and the promotion or recognition of sexual relations between persons of the same sex,”
What's ironic about the words of Parliament Member Asuman Basalirwa even though he's thousands of miles away from the United States is that the overwhelming majority of people in this country actually feel the same way in that they really want to see traditional family values, cultural and religious faiths protected. The people in this country also feel as if they are being “stifled” in their efforts to voice their concerns. As a Social Scientist I can most definitely understand how and why the “straight people” of this country feel the way they do.
What gay people no matter the type must understand is that the world doesn't revolve around you. Furthermore, always finding a way to inject homosexuality into every entertainment and media outlet is interpreted as grotesque by straight people. For instance, the HBO video game adaptation of “The Last of Us” is a prime example of unnecessarily injecting dosages of homosexually to the viewing audience who for the most part are not suffering from “Sexual Orientation Disturbance”. I can say that because before we started using the term “Sexual Orientation Disturbance” to be homosexual was considered a type of illness/disorder and the only reason the classification changed was because of people protesting during the 1960’s.
In the case of Uganda, this should be a wakeup call to gay people of any type. Why? Because if their government does pass a law such as this as it recently has passed in Parliament, then it gives executive and judicial license for other countries to do so as well. To be fair, there have always been gay people on this earth - I think we can all accept that fact. However, who you choose to sleep with is your business. However, the majority of people in this country and abroad really don't want to see it in open view. Why, because it’s just not something that the general public wants or wants to be socially engineered to accept. Now even though the bill has recently passed Parliament it still has to be signed into law by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. Should Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni sign the Anti-Homosexual bill into law? Let us know what you think below in the comments.
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