Streets filled with 4000 Anti-Gay Uganda Protesters

Over 4000 pro­test­ers took to the streets protest­ing in favor of the Anti-Gay Bill. Ugan­dan gov­ern­ment offi­cials have backed off sup­port­ing this bill due to pres­sure from for­eign investors.

I was dis­cussing this sub­ject with a few friends, and we weren’t quite sure if the aver­age Ugan­dan cit­i­zen cared about the Anti-Gay Bill. I think this video makes it clear that their is strong domes­tic back­ing for the bill. Though it is ques­tion­able if these peo­ple are really against homo­sex­u­al­ity. Per­haps frus­tra­tion with for­eign influ­ences has pop­u­lar­ized protest­ing for the Anti-Gay Bill. The peo­ple protest­ing prob­a­bly care more about national inde­pen­dence, but instead protest­ing gay peo­ple because they are easy to pick on.

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February 18th, 2010 Reply