Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin notes that many in Uganda are mystified by things said in the West. Yeah, a draconian anti-gay bill is still in play there (one penalty is death) and the West is right to criticize it. But abuse of gays is only one of many human rights problems in Uganda. And the West isn't threatening sanctions over the denial of rights of other kinds of people.
This one-sided view of rights means:
Ugandans feel gays are seeking special rights that many ordinary citizens don't have.
The West's insistence only of the rights of gays when rights of so many others are violated means the West is out of touch with what is really going on in Uganda.
Such a narrow focus reinforces the false idea that homosexuality is a foreign import and we're only interested in protecting our own.
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