NewVision.co.ug – By J.S. Mayanja-Nkangi
UGANDA is experiencing an internationally orchestrated crescendo of demands for “rights” by the homosexual fraternity: male, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transvestite. Essentially, these “rights” reduce to only one; the absolute, non-negotiable, “right” to enjoy sexual pleasure man with man, woman with woman; with the bisexual exploiting the pleasures of both worlds and the trans gender coveting and securing the sexual pleasures which both God and his or her heterosexual parents did not give him or her.
The transvestite is apparently ambivalent as to which sexual genus to firmly pursue, but fits him or herself somehow. Thus this alleged right is pure sexual hedonism or the relentless pursuit of sexual pleasure for its own sake. The gays’ claim to legitimatised same sex unions or marriages is purely ancillary to the sexual pleasures and is merely an insurance or security for accessing and enjoying same sex sexual pleasures. What is implicit here is a claim to the ‘right to sex’ and this should be readily conceded as a human right, which is universally-accepted. However, the mode of sexual activity is a societal, rather than a human right and can only be sanctioned by the community in accordance with the moral, cultural, religious or legal norms of that particular community. Sodomy and lesbianism are modes of sex and are, therefore, subject to societal regulation by sanction or prohibition in conformity with a community’s interests.