A Stitch in Haste

We pause briefly from blogging about Islam to blog about -- well, about Islam et al:

Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative country.
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Last week, [Katherine] Roubos covered a news conference in Kampala where Uganda's gay community spoke out publicly for the first time. The participants wore masks to hide their identities for fear of recrimination, but asked for Ugandans to respect their rights and allow them to live in dignity.

Demonstrators at Tuesday's event, organized by a coalition of Christian, Muslim and Bahai groups, accused Roubos of advocating for gay rights in the country.

Look on the bright side, at least this female deportee won't have to pay $330,000 in ransom.

More:

The Ugandan Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Nsaba Buturo, also attended the protest and said the government supported the enforcement of existing anti-gay laws.

"We people of Uganda have values. If this lady cannot respect them then she had better be deported," said Eddie Semakula, a member of the coalition. "She is advocating for the rights of homosexuals in a paper that is read by children even. We must protect our children."

Of course, you could have stopped reading after "Ugandan Minister of Ethics and Integrity." That tells you everything you need to know about which side of the civilized-barbarian demarcation line Uganda lies on.

On the other hand, Uganda is exactly the kind of "values-driven" society (minus the hellbound Muslim and Bahai populations, that is) that many theocrats seek to replicate here in the U.S. To radical social conservatives in America, the Ugandans aren't behind us -- they've lapped us! Go figure.