Franken sponsors bill condemning Uganda’s anti-homosexuality act

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, AL!!!

the world has turned upside down! if your mother had married and had sexual relations with her like,you wouldn’t have the opportunity to exist.friend,it is just absurd walking with your legs up!human brain and sense off value has been pitifully infected. alas!

It seems the senate has nothing to do,,Uganda is an independent country that does not need lectures for a Guatanamo, AbuGrab, waterboarding,racist nation. They should learn from us and abolish Sodomy.
Why not pass one allowing Sodomites in your own military?

I wonder if our other MN Senator will wait to see where the fence is before she sits on it for this bill, too.

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I’ll support it if it reduces or eliminates any US aid to that country.

People are so crazy. Live and let live. Good grief!!! You go AL!!!!!

Sodomites have excellent aim.

I applaud Sen Franken and others who call out to stop inhumanity.

Yes, Uganda is an independent country. No country has a right to kill its citizens who threaten no one.

cyprian and Okusu Ojwang: Are you sure you support putting these citizens to death? Do you really think it’s wrong to urge Uganda to stop killing them?

Yes, it’s right to stop killing and other human rights abuses wherever they occur.

Al Franken is really the only one in government doing what he is supposed to be doing, representing the people who elected him. Thanks Al, and keep bringing these important issues to the forefront

al frankin the the comedian without humour, decided politics paid huge money from lobbiests,and lo & behold he got a questionable slim margin of votes from good minn. voters after a long dragged out recount, both jews seeking the same job, funny because either winner is an agent for israel like so many other u.s. gov. officials, making laws better suited to support israel than being in america’s interest, the 900 settlement homes still being built elegally will in future no doubt be occupied by some of these X gov. law makers upon their retirement …

Gays like myself just need to do what I do, get a gun and shoot back when they shoot at us.

Even bigots can’t argue against arming and protecting yourself.

@ Carole – really? the Ugandans elected him? Specifically, the gay Ugandans?

Does Mr. Franken not have enough to do in fixing the problems with his state and country? Do we as a country need to write a big list for these men, detailing the issues that they should be concentrating on? Our interventionist policy over the last 50 years has a very poor record, and its time that the US and its elected officials start keeping their attention focused here at home. Let the British or hypocritical French (do as we say, not as we do… which is nothing) pick up the torch on these issues.

Keep fiddling, Nero. Keep fiddling.

I don’t understand how passing a bill in the United States will hold any weight on what another country does. While I certainly don’t agree with the bill Uganda is passing i don’t think creating a bill in our government is the right move. If our citizens want to protest go for it but passing a bill for it seems like a waste of time. They are their own independent country and they don’t need other countries passing bills condemning them. Why don’t these senators work on bills that effect americans in our own country.

Wonder how long it will take the GOP in Congress to filibuster this bill. Because, you know, the Senate shouldn’t be able to vote for this type of thing…

Seriously? Uganda needs another country to tell them that what they are proposing is fucking inhumane? Go Al!

Wonderful, simply wonderful job Senator Franken. It will basically be a genocide if this law passes, no different then a racial genocide in my mind.

For all those saying ‘Al’ shouldn’t involve himself in Uganda’s business – then what the heck were the nutjob ‘christo-crats’ doing over there telling the Ugandan’s that gay’s we’re the devil and would molest their children, encouraging them to make homosexuality a capital offense?

Seriously people wake the F up. Its not about being a democrat or a republican. Its about doing whats right.

All you so called christians out there, why don’t you follow you’re own damn bumper stickers for once – ‘What would Jesus do?’ – kill all the gays? I doubt it.

Ditto Crown’s comment — the Ugandans drafted their legislation after some conservative christian fucktards lobbied them to beware of the global “homosexual agenda” — the type of naive cultural warfare that at worst deprives people of happiness in the US but costs lives elsewhere. I’m proud of Al Franken for standing up to the christian jihadi-esque fundamentalists and speaking up on sanity’s side here, to send a strong message to Uganda that the US’s _official_ stance is that killing gays is wrong. And the beauty of it is that to vote against this bill. . .well, what is that saying?

Shouldn’t Al be focusing on the problems of the United States? And if he really cares more about Africa than the USA, they have much larger problems than anti-homosexuality laws. Also, I didn’t see any actionable content in this bill. Why does this require a bill? This is just a cheap publicity stunt. Why is this man getting paid to lead our country? Shamful.

There is a difference between missionaries going spreading their “word of god” and presenting a bill that all will do is give Uganda a frownie face of what they do. How about a bill against Bolvia because the age of consent of sex is 13 where here it would be considered pedophilia. I’m not saying what these people are right but presenting a bill that dictates how we will react when another country does something is VERY dangerous on face value. Can you imagine if other countries did that towards us based around what in their culture1? not to mention those who are just extremists. I’m down with AL, just not down with this..

Once again, face-time on a great humanitarian issue. I can’t believe the American people buy into this stuff. Yet on the hard issues HERE, IN THIS COUNTRY, these weasels from both sides of the aisle, won’t belly up and go to the mat for the issues that are killing this nation: ending 2 wars, outlaw credit card rates, healthcare, Veteran’s care, housing. Uganda, Haiti, the list grow’s. WHEN ARE THESE ELECTED OFFICIALS GOING TO START REPRESENTING US, THE AMERICANS, AND OUR RIGHTS?
We elected them because they campaigned on CHANGE. Where’s the CHANGE? Same old/same old. After 30-some years of voting, I’m done. It’s all for the special interests with the vast majority of US citizens paying the bill and getting it square between the cheeks every time.

“I’m not saying these people are right; I’m just saying we shouldn’t speak up about it.”

In other words, let’s remove any hint of morality from American political life. Let’s stop pretending that “American exceptionalism” refers to our system, and a respect for the essential humanity and dignity of all people. Let’s ignore inhumanity where it exists, and give our implicit belssing to it by not speaking up when “those people” aren’t right.

What a crock. The Senate has a right–an obligation–to speak up in favor of human rights. It’s a reflection that American has values worth honoring because they are right, not because they are expedient. We need to show that we believe in these values strongly enough (even if we don’t always live up to them) to condemn their denial.

Or is it just lobbing a brick at a Senator whom you dislike? Resollutions like this are a routing part of congressional business, and are hardly a distration from other important work. Get over yourselves.

America, America America, where has your morality gone. It is tme for you to come to Africa to be taught about morality. We as Africans have values that we dont compromise and Uganda is a sovereign state. We cant be advised by America of all countries on these issues coz they have disapointed us before in these matters.

Mr. Senator, you have no moral authority to advise us. So leave Ugandan Parliament to make their own decisions.

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@Andrew s

Murder is a value?

Because Crown hit it on the nail……

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For all those saying ‘Al’ shouldn’t involve himself in Uganda’s business – then what the heck were the nutjob ‘christo-crats’ doing over there telling the Ugandan’s that gay’s we’re the devil and would molest their children, encouraging them to make homosexuality a capital offense?

Seriously people wake the F up. Its not about being a democrat or a republican. Its about doing whats right.

All you so called christians out there, why don’t you follow you’re own damn bumper stickers for once – ‘What would Jesus do?’ – kill all the gays? I doubt it.
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From the bill:
“Whereas the United States, in seeking to promote the core American principles of equality and `Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,’ has long championed the universality of human rights;”

Which part of that is such a waste of time to the people putting this down?

why does there have to be such a floodgate of contempt towards an effort that forges the principals of universal equality and humanity over subjective morality. whether or not american congressmen have double standards is a separate issue and should not be made a reason to quibble from the cause they have committed to..speaking against ills and repugnant laws that revolt against love and freedom should rightly be denounced to promote awareness and rally support in the hopeful bid to reverse such inhuman practices…i stand with whoever takes up this cause and hope for a better tomorrow in Uganda !! and the reason i m here is because my mother practised her free will of sexuality and was not married to the quran or jesus !! let god do the judging when it comes to matters of rectitude and sanctity since we ve never really been good at it anyways.

!st why all the outrage now at Christians?

Al Franken named 4 countries NOW that have the death penalty.

WE all failed, Christians and non-Christians. We should have had outrage back then.

I am a Christian and I am outraged. No one should be dying.

All this shows that Jesus needs to come soon, clear up all the mess and straighten up all of our minds and hearts.

This strategy is backfiring. The U.S. can’t arm and train vicious dictators–Uganda’s Museveni and Rwanda’s Kagame, and back wars costing millions of lives, then wag its finger and say, “You have to respect LGBT rights.” Or rather, it can, but it’s not ultimately going to be very effective.