Cliff Kinkaid bashes The Washington Post for "blasting" the government of Uganda. Their government is considering a law to protect children from homosexual predators and the dangerous public health impact of the homosexual lifestyle.
Kinkaid's overall plight with the Post is the prejudice way it was reported.
Johnathan Capehart of the Post writes, " If the law passes, Uganda should be punished by the international community. I would love for the U.S. to strip the country of foreign aid. Nothing focuses the mind like cash deprivation."
The determination of this major paper to use its influence to impose acceptance of homosexuality on Uganda, possibly using foreign aid as a lever is not something that generates outrage or even concern in the rest of the nations media.
Kinkaid feels that Capehart's own personal battle with homosexuality has seeped into his work. He writes, "It is clear that Johnathan Capehart's basic problem is with Christian character of the opposition to his lifestyle."
Kinkaid goes on to talk about the protesting Capehart has done in the U.S for gay rights. He also shows how Kinkaid supports Obama appeal to allow homosexual and lesbians serve openly in the military.
My only question is "Don't we have enough to worry about in our own country?" Its not enough that we (U.S.) have our own issues...i.e--the war, recession, job loss, racism. We have to go bother someone else in their country and tell them how they should run it.
I really truly believe that we would get a lot of things done if we took the advice our mothers kindly gave us.."Mind your own damn business." It is not the concern of ours what Uganda decides to do about gay rights in Uganda. How does that affect America? It doesn't!
Furthermore, I am getting sick and tired of the bias in the media. We have got to find a way to report the news without allowing our hypocritical selves show up.
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As a homosexual, I believe that everyone should be equal.
ReplyDeleteNow, away from the blah blah.
1. Yes, we have no reason to be poking our noses into another countries buisness.
2. I don't see any way to get away from a biased media. I can promise to do my best when I gain a position somewhere. I know you will too MizzMoneyMaker.
I also agree everyone should be treated equally. The is proned to be bias more often and take stories to where they dont need to go. Media could have done a better job.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's right for us to decide whether same-sex couples should be able to get married in our own country, let alone be able to exist in another country. It is true that there are far too many more pressing issues that should be focused on. Not that same-sex couples lives' should even be considered an "issue," but unfortunately it has come to this.
ReplyDeleteI agree a million times over that gay or not we should all be treated equally.
ReplyDeleteI have a gay uncle; I personally think that he is way to flamboyant for me and that he is always looking for someone out there who doesn't approve of him just so he can cause problems; I totally understand that gays can sometime think of them selves as a people who should get special treatment but the bottom line is they shouldn't we should all be equall.
I would also like to state that why is Uganda's views on gay rights our problem.
Uganda has its own leaders just like we do and we need to be focussed on our own problems; maybe then we would be making progress.
amen
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