Homosexuality = Terrorism???

I recently came across something on ABC News which i found very interesting. In Uganda, there is a proposed Anti Homosexuality Bill that would punish those who are in a homosexual relationship by death. An American Christian church group(they were white by the way) coincidentally went to Uganda a year ago, preaching to the people there on their views on how homosexuality is the devil & its corrupting & threatening the heterosexual union between man & woman. This was, in large part due to the preachings of Pastor Martin Ssempa. The Ugandans went to the streets, praising the proposed bill and chanted how homosexuality is the equivalent to sodomy.

see the video here



Even though this would be a great topic for discussion within itself, im actually going in a different direction. Pastor Martin Ssempa in one part of the interview compared homosexuality to terrorism. Yes, terrorism. He then went on to elaborate by calling homosexuality, "Sexual Terrorism". As i watched the rest of the interview, i could not help but to think about how gay men & women are subjected to such hate by some & vigorously defended by others. If you think about it, many Americans feel the same exact way as Martin Ssempa, even though they may not express it the same way. Homosexuality is not as wide spread understood & accepted as television may lead people to believe. Some men still feel threatened or feel disgusted by gay men & resented & disrespected by gay women. On December 13 2008, in the Bay Area city of Richmond, a lesbian woman was gang-raped by four men who used homophobic epithets as they violently assaulted her for almost an hour, before leaving her naked in the street. The vicious attack began when four men jumped her after she got out of her car, which had a rainbow sticker on it, clubbed her with a blunt object, disrobed her and began raping her. When a passerby almost stumbled on them during the rape, they bundled the woman into her car and took her to an abandoned building, where the sexual attack continued, until the men finally left her naked, and badly injured. Sadly, these attacks happen all the time as statistics show that anti- gay crimes are on the rise since 2006 nationwide. Gay men and women are being sought out and killed in the streets for being who they are.

Terrorists are considered ones who threaten another person or persons way of life. No one wants to know the motives behind why they do what they do, just get rid of them. Terrorists are considered the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth.

I think this is truly an unfair assessment of gay people. To compare a sexual preference with those who try to take the most dramatic measures to get their point across is not fair. Terrorists may feel that they have been persecuted due to their beliefs, but gay men and women suffer unjust criticism & treatment because one may not approve of their lifestyle.

The world we know it is not ready for change until we are truly ready to take off the masks that we wear and stop trying to fit everything into a convenient little box. Acceptance is divine.