Uganda's anti-gay legislation no one else's business?

If you thought that America had reached the promised land where enlightenment about homosexuality is concerned, check out these reactions to Bloomberg’s article arguing that Uganda’s anti-gay legislation is the entire world’s business. One wonders whether the people below would argue that it was wrong for the US to get involved in World War I and II. After all, Germany was then also a sovereign country that made laws as it deemed fit – mostly with the tacit support of the Germans.

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• Liz 

  All cultures are equal, right? We are to tolerate all other beliefts (except Christianity, of course), right?The USA should stay out of other countries’ business, right? All sovereign nations have the right to govern themselves as they see fit, right? So, what’s the problem?

• Terri Chris

  Homosexuality is silently abhorred in the USA too. The difference is women run the government here.

  
  

• DGKY

  “Homosexuality” is the correct word.”Gay” pertains to being cheerful. Why has a common word in the hijacked by such people? Are they ashamed of who they are so the must use another word?

• Damon 

  These laws don’t make it illegal to be gay.  They make it illegal for men to sodomize each other.  Since when is it a basic human right for men to sodomize each other?  Apparently the UN thinks everything is a basic human right except having a gun to defend yourself.  Is it even remotely possible that Uganda is capable of governing itself without self righteous westerners telling them what to do?  Let the westerners worry about their own financial demise instead of peddling sodomy to Africa.

  
  

• Alexander Szilagyi

  You should be more concerned about repression and killings in Syria than about this issue. Or do you think it is more important???

• philipat

  Whilst I generally agree with the sentiments expressed in this piece, I had understood, and please correct me if I am wrong, that a sovereign state is perfectly entitled to govern itself as it sees fit?

• monkeyfurball 

  It’s their Country.  They can make the laws they want to.