Harper's Hidden Anti Gay Agenda Exposed

[scribblet]

Bravo to the Tories for taking a firm stand and actually putting resources in the hands of local African opposition in Africa. To be a Canadian at this time is to be proud.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/06/canada-funding-opponents-of-abhorrent-anti-gay-bill-in-uganda/

Canada funding opponents of ‘abhorrent’ anti-gay bill in Uganda

Canada is quietly financing a concerted grassroots effort to aid gay Ugandans’ fight against their country’s proposed anti-homosexuality bill — and preparing them in case it passes, says a senior Department of Foreign Affairs source.

Since November, when the Ugandan Parliament renewed its effort to pass the legislation, which Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has called “abhorrent,” Canada has spent $200,000 to kick-start several gay rights initiatives in the region. The source confir

[kimmy]

I am glad to hear that Canada is actively, if quietly, assisting efforts to oppose these disgusting laws.

-k

[The_Squid]

Will this hurt support from their base? Is that why this is being kept on the down-low?

[Sleipnir]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/30/pol-baird-nigeria-anti-gay-bill.html

Gotta love Baird <3

http://www.ugandandiasporanews.com/2012/10/26/ugandan-parliamentarian-blasts-canadian-foreign-affairs-minister-over-gay-marriage-remark/

And Baird keeps pushing back

Now I'm no Conservative supporter, but I have to admire Baird.

Edited March 8, 2013 by Sleipnir

[kimmy]

Will this hurt support from their base? Is that why this is being kept on the down-low?

Well, Canada and other western nations have already publicly denounced the various incarnations of Uganda's "Kill the gays" laws in the strongest terms, so I don't think that's the issue.

After my last post, it occurred to me that if they're trying to network with and assist members of Uganda's gay community, that sort of thing would by its very nature be kind of under the table. Partly because the people you're trying to network with are considered criminals in their country. And partly because trying to effect political action in another country could be considered an affront to their sovereignty.

And as Mrs Kadaga illustrates, in Sleipnir's 2nd article, proponents of this law could use nationalism as a means of rallying support for it. "The white man still thinks we are a colony and that he can tell us what our laws should be! Let us show the white man that we make our own laws now!"

So perhaps it is for the best that the average Ugandan on the street not be aware that the government of Canada is trying to undermine the "Kill the gays" laws.

-k

[Paradox]

The Honourable John Baird P.C., M.P. (Ottawa West—Nepean), the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is an interesting part of Her Majesty's Government for Canada. He has won points with me over the years for having consistently voted in favour of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, despite the position of the Conservative Party (having even assisted Her Majesty's Government for Ontario approve same-sex marriage in 2005).

[scribblet]

Note the date the article about Baird/funding, it's been going on since November last year. This was prior to the media outrage about funding for a supposedly anti gay religious group providing clean water etc. to Ugandans. Kinda puts a lie to all of that.

I see no reason why this should cut into conservative support, only a liberal would infer such a thing.

[hitops]

Note the date the article about Baird/funding, it's been going on since November last year. This was prior to the media outrage about funding for a supposedly anti gay religious group providing clean water etc. to Ugandans. Kinda puts a lie to all of that.

I see no reason why this should cut into conservative support, only a liberal would infer such a thing.

Good point. It was always obvious that tax exemption for charitable groups doing humanitarian work in another country was exactly that and nothing more.