What’s more screwed up? jailing a newspaper editor for claiming someone is gay or actually having “forced anal examinations” in a country so conservative that gay rights are completely ignored?
I think the latter. It’s nobody’s business what sexual orientation somebody is or is not and it’s certainly not an issue for the State to enforce some misguided quasi-religious/conservative inspired pseudo-beliefset upon the whole populous. But then this is Africa and there are more than a few dozen other major issues affecting African nations that dominate the headlines so stories such as this one are relegated to the sidelines. It’s bad enough that there are fucked up whackjob “ministers” of religion dancing about on sea planes proclaiming AIDS as a curse from God (it isn’t, AIDS is an unfortunate disease which affects all people equally) but it’s 10 times worse when the government of a country gets in on the act.
Jon.