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Homosexual violence

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Ugandan King Mwanga II engaged in sexual relations with his male subjects. Many were martyed burnt to death between 1885 and 1887 on the orders of Mwanga II, for denying him gay sex when they converted to Christianity. The SMUG's report is a response to the anti-gay bill proposal passed in Ugandan parliament in 2009, and is aimed to prove that same sex relationships existed throughout Africa, including the territories that now form Uganda, before the colonisation.  According to the report, a commonly cited reason for maintaining, or expanding, criminalisation of homosexuality nowadays, is that homosexuality is "un-African" or, in other words, a foreign phenomenon. The report does not say that it is un-African but that it is unhealthy, violent, against marriage, against the community and against faith in God. The LGBT research, tried to show that throughout Africa's history homosexuality has been a "consistent and logical feature of African societies and bel

Homosexual violence - never reported

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KAMPALA, Uganda.  Though their courage in the face of certain and horrible death was exemplary, the reason why Uganda’s 45 young male martyrs were burned to death by King Mwanga II on June 3 191 years ago has fallen behind a veil of silence that enshrouds even the Christian news media, as a story in  Christianity Today  this month shows. The silence, according to defenders of the natural family and Christian sexual morality, reflects the success of homosexual activists in driving all criticism of same-sex relations from public discourse. “Across the Western media, and it is creeping even into Christian media, homosexual violence is all off limits,” said Scott Lively, the outspoken Evangelical pastor and defender of the natural family and Christian values who has been blamed for exporting American-style homophobia to Uganda. When Pope Francis visited the shrine to the 22 Catholic martyrs in January, the mass he celebrated was covered by mainstream and Catholic news media wit