I like oilism, but how about oilophilia, its our lust for oil the allows us to blinkered to the nature of the people supplying it. Having said that I don't believe that marching across the globe punishing people for not falling into line with us, isn't the way to go.

It is difficult enough to practice acceptance (as per mauvepink) on an individual level. Jesus was right in that the only way to make it work is to love others as yourself; acceptance on its own doesn't survive long. It may come as a shock to some who tout Jesus's name but he was quoting Leviticus, just a few verses from the verse singled out to support punishment of homosexuals.

We seem to find it next to impossible to act with anything other than self interest when we form into groups, particularly when the group is called a country and has a government. We need to change our expectations of governments, perhaps then governments would act differently. What we have know is the alternative were power is everything and the power of the West is a mighty fist which stamps its self-interest on the rest of the globe. This discussion maybe in a good cause, but from a Ugandan perspective I would suggest it is part of the mighty fist, maybe a very small part.

Better to ask ourselves what we can do for Uganda and its people to allow them to move to a place were this proposed legislation is unacceptable to them. If we loved them as ourselves then they would be in a very different place than they are now.

Simon