Desmond Tutu warns of 'Nazi' parallel to Uganda anti-gay law
(AFP) - 19 minutes ago
Cape Town -- South African peace icon Desmond Tutu warned on Sunday
that Uganda's controversial anti-gay law recalled sinister attempts by
the Nazi and apartheid regimes to "legislate against love".
The Anglican cleric said he was "very disheartened" to learn that
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni intended to sign a bill that will
see homosexuals jailed for life, urging him instead to clamp down on
rape, child abuse and the sex trade.
"In South Africa, apartheid police used to rush into bedrooms where
whites were suspected of making love to blacks," Tutu said in a
statement. "It was demeaning to those whose 'crime' was to love each
other, it was demeaning to the policemen ? and it was a blot on our
entire society."
Tutu dismissed the arguments of Museveni's science advisors who
concluded that homosexuality was a learned, rather than
genetically-determined behaviour -- and therefore could be
"unlearned".
"The history of people is littered with attempts to legislate against
love or marriage across class, caste and race," Tutu argued.
"But there is no scientific basis or genetic rationale for love...
There is no scientific justification for prejudice and discrimination,
ever. And nor is there any moral justification.
"Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa, among others, attest to these facts."
Uganda's anti-gay bill cruised through parliament in December after
its architects agreed to drop an extremely controversial death penalty
clause, although the bill still says repeat homosexuals should be
jailed for life, and also outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and
requires people to denounce gays.
Museveni rallied behind the bill this month despite earlier opposing it.
"My plea to President Museveni is to use his country's debate around
the Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a catalyst to further strengthen the
culture of human rights and justice in Uganda," Tutu said.
He argued that Uganda should step up criminal sanctions against child
sexual abusers, rape, sexual violence and commercial sex, "regardless
of gender or sexual orientation".
"Tightening such areas of the law would surely provide children and
families far more protection than criminalising acts of love between
consenting adults."
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