Kabushenga has erred on homosexuality, I'd say!

SIR-I would like to make the following comments on Mr Robert Kabushenga's thoughts on the gay rights debate in Sunday Vision of May 6. Kabushenga says the Government should avoid the debate for fear of Uganda being seen as undemocratic and denied aid for development. But he should be reminded that the Government has responsibilities to the people and it should not in the event of danger, surrender those responsibilities to intimidation or bribery by those bringing the danger. For example, if the gays campaign is estimated to orientate young people into homosexuality, destroying their natural, cultural and spiritual values, the Government must put in place measures to check the spread of the campaign. Democracy is dynamic. It is not a prison for African governments to be locked in and fed on aid by donors. Our government must be independent enough to avoid friends, allies or even donors whose help, whatever it may be, may undermine the sovereignty and dignity of our nation. Moreover, Kabushenga should not think that our definition of democracy must strictly align with that of the Europeans and Americans. They do not think so themselves. That is why we have been getting aid, loans and grants from them for the past 15 years despite President Museveni's modified Movement version of democracy as opposed to multiparty democracy, which they cherish. Kabushenga talks about the risk of forfeiting aid for development. But aid alone is not development. For development to take place, capital has to be put in the hands of healthy and stable people. If we sell our values to gay activists, we must know for sure that we are opening inroads for new diseases. In the Western world homosexual immorality was greatly responsible for the spread of AIDS. Government cannot afford to sit back passively and leave gay activists do what they want where they want and in the way they want. Kabushenga's question of "tolerance" could perhaps be debated if it was concerning a pond at the back o one's land, but absolutely not when concerning a bush fire that is heading for a village of grass thatched huts. Homosexuality is like a bush fire and should not be simply called a "sexual orientation". Moreover, when all is said and done, we have to expose the debate before the light of God the creator to see whether what we think can get approval. (Genesis 19:1 -13: Leviticus 18, verse 22; Romans 1:24-27 ). James E. Mutumba Kampala