 So, it's made the news that Uganda, Uganda is in Africa, if you were wondering. Country in Africa, former British colony I guess, has just passed some of the most extreme anti-gay laws probably in the world right now, although much of the world has significant anti-gay laws, certainly Russia and much of Africa. So this is a law that's created a lot of angst, of course in the western world, which has a very tolerant view of LGBTQ in Africa, gay sex is still criminalized in most of Africa. Not all of Africa, the number of countries. South Africa for example, South Africa for example, has legalized gay marriage, there were a number of countries in the African region that have, that basically have legalized the homosexual act or decriminalized it, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Lesotho, and Cichellis have decriminalized same sex relationships just in the last decade. And generally young people in Africa are far more, you know, far more, pro-gay is not the right terminology, but far more accepting of gay and gay sex than are others. Uganda passed a pretty restrictive law, a gay sex is banned and could result in significant jail sentences if caught, what they call aggregated homosexuality, aggravated homosexuality is both, you know, this applies to rape, a homosexual rape, it applies to homosexual relationships with a child, it applies also to having homosexual sex where among consenting adults where one of them has HIV, aggravated homosexuality has the death sentence, somebody who knowingly promotes homosexuality, not clear what promotes even means, could spend 20 years in jail, you can imagine what actually being caught having homosexual sex involves decades in jail. Organizations convicted of encouraging it could receive a 10-year ban, currently there are 22 non-profits in Uganda that are under investigation for allegedly promoting homosexuality in the country. You can imagine how the government defines promoting homosexuality. And so, you know, this has obviously come under attack from much of the West, it turns out that the United States actually sends about $1 billion annually for various programs in Uganda. Did you know that? That our foreign aid goes, $1 billion, $1 billion. And the Biden administration is threatening to withhold that $1 billion, I think they should permanently stop providing $1 billion to Uganda and maybe stop all this foreign aid stuff anyway, you're promoting all kinds of horrible, horrific things. Uganda and many African countries have very, very intolerant cultures to homosexuality, it is, you know, people are beaten, people are killed, people are treated just horrifically for being homosexuals, it is truly a travesty and the fact that the United States supports this is, yeah, horrible. So yes, withdraw their billion dollars, absolutely. For those of you who say, well, aggravated, this aggravated homosexuality, you know, rape, so what? So they got a death penalty for rape, big deal. Of course, raping a woman doesn't carry that kind of sentence, anywhere near that kind of sentence. Rape of women is very, very common in Uganda, almost a quarter of all women report that their first sexual encounter in Uganda was, I think it was 40% of women, was by rape. Women, you know, women generally sexual assault, sexual crimes against women are not particularly prosecuted, particularly hard, there are new laws on the books that are more stringent about prosecuting rape of women and girls. But when it actually comes to court, it is rare that these things are actually prosecuted. It's clearly these laws, even if you think, yeah, rape, that's a bad thing. Well, rape is a bad thing, no matter whom you rape, no matter what sex the person you rape is. So this is a bill basically that's an anti-gay, anti-homosexuality, it's a bill that is trying to dictate what you do with your sex, what you do in the privacy room, in your bedroom. It is a disgrace, it is disgusting, it is horrific. This is kind of evil stuff that's just horrible. And of course, part of their energy comes from, you know, attacking the left. So part of the energy comes from, oh, we've seen what gay cultures look like, look at America and look at Europe, we don't want to be like them, you know, we hate the LGBTQ plus, look at, you know, the kind of Putin and why the white likes Putin so much is all the kind of language he uses, attacking homosexuality and attacking and it just feeds into, oh, well, we kind of like Uganda because they're anti-woke. This is good. This is prevalent all over the world. Somebody says even China has some of that. Yeah, even China has it, although this is one of the worst, I mean, the death penalty is one of the worst. Horrible in the news and, you know, this is where you have to side, I think, wholeheartedly with those people advocating for gay rights, LGBTQ rights against authoritarian, horrific regimes like this that want to criminalize private human activity that affects nobody other than the people participating. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. 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