"The language those people use while writing messages to me is horrible," he added. "I can't read them out because it will be a shame for me."

Minister Buturo referred to the language in the messages again, saying: "With such words and language used, I have noticed that those people are sick. They need help."

At present homosexual marriage is a criminal offense within Uganda. A 2005 amendment to Ugandan law specifically states, "It is unlawful for same-sex couples to marry."

Nevertheless, AllAfrica.com reports, the Minister stated that when dealing with homosexuals the government "does not plan to vilify and criminalise homosexuals," but rather, "It will support measures to counsel and help them understand that their state is not normal or natural but a serious social and psychological aberration in human behaviour" (See http://allafrica.com/stories/200706290189.html).

According to both the Monitor and AllAfrica.com, last year the minister threatened to arrest leaders of a new homosexual church group that was supposedly forming in Uganda. Although this might seem to be a cause for the flood of threats, most of the messages have been coming from the United Kingdom and the United States.

Protects True Marriage and Criminalizes Same-Sex 'Marriage' http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05070805.html

Ugandan Archbishop Warns of God's Wrath in Homosexual Relationships http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07051107.html

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UGANDA: Do not yield to gay demands

Editorial

Sunday Monitor http://www.monitor.co.ug/sunday/oped/oped07011.php July 1 - 7, 2007

In our Friday issue, Ethics minister James Nsaba Buturo was reported to have complained that he was being threatened by homosexuals (See, Homos Want To Kill Me - Minister).

These brothers and sisters, who definitely have perverted minds, are constantly sending hate mail and death threats to Dr Buturo. Most of the emails emanated from gays and lesbians in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

They want the minister to drop his campaign against their sexual orientation! Or to put it better, to nip in the bud their reprehensible agenda of propagating their 'culture' among our school-going youths, and to demand 'recognition' in Uganda.

The head of sexual minorities, Uganda, Ms Juliet Victor Mukasa, is quoted to have said that Dr Buturo was a stumbling block in their quest for gay rights!

For heaven's sake, their sexual orientation is not in consonance with the law in Uganda. Period. And neither is it in tandem with various religions or numerous Ugandan societal norms; the moral code in more than 50 ethnic groups.

And here is another premise for the need to expunge their arguments and demands. The western world is wont to lecture to the second and third world(s) on the need to respect the rule of law. Well, the current legal regime in Uganda dictates that homosexuality is not acceptable. One therefore wonders why these men and women in the UK and the USA would want to break the law in Uganda.

Thirdly, it is arrogance of the highest degree for them to seek to swamp Uganda and the third world with their decadence. Granted, we have been swamped with pop culture, sports, education, technology, etc, but we as a country have a right to filter the chaff from the grain; we are not duty bound to accept whatever information or lifestyle that is dangled before us, just because we are a poor lot who still depend on bilateral and multi-lateral assistance to bridge deficits in our [national] recurrent and development budget(s).

We appeal to our religious and cultural leaders -- in addition to school matrons and teachers -- to enhance the fight against the immoral agenda espoused by gay activists who are in and outside Uganda. Their orientation must not be allowed to take root in our society as is the case in some countries. The custodians of our laws; the police and the courts of law should therefore be vigilant.

---From an independent Ugandan paper. "A Times of London survey (November, 2000), found www.monitor.co.ug to be among the 100 most visited newspaper sites in the world."