Fr.Anthony Musaala : Forgotten by the Uganda media but has made it in the LA Times: Uganda priest ostracized for publicizing sexual abuse
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2013/05/franthony-musaala-forgotten-by-uganda.html
UN panel confronts Vatican on child sex abuse by clergy: Vatican department shares building with Italy's biggest gay sauna
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2014/01/un-panel-confronts-vatican-on-child-sex.htmlAnglican and Catholic churches change their position on the Bahati bill : Ugandan Pentecostals continue to foolishly support the bill
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/02/catholic-church-changes-its-position-on.htmlReligious leaders appeal to President
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/2148774/-/4sqg8t/-/index.html
Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje, Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga and
Archbishop of Anglican Church Stanley Ntagali during a press briefing
in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO BY BETTY NDAGIRE
By BETTY NDAGIRE
Posted Friday, January 17 2014 at 02:00
Posted Friday, January 17 2014 at 02:00
In Summary
Gays and lesbians were listed as homosexuals by the
Bill. A proposal to put the punishment to 14 years in jail was rejected
by the House.
KAMPALA-Religious leaders have asked President Museveni to quickly assent to the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, just like his Nigerian counterpart Goodluck Jonathan did recently.
KAMPALA-Religious leaders have asked President Museveni to quickly assent to the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, just like his Nigerian counterpart Goodluck Jonathan did recently.
However, the leaders’ call came on the same day it
was revealed that the President has written to the Speaker of
Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, rejecting the proposed law and asking for
it to be reconsidered by MPs.
After more than two years of on-and-off debate,
Parliament last year passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, spelling out
life sentences for anyone convicted of homosexuality.
Gays and lesbians were listed as homosexuals by the Bill. A proposal to put the punishment to 14 years in jail was rejected by the House.
Gays and lesbians were listed as homosexuals by the Bill. A proposal to put the punishment to 14 years in jail was rejected by the House.
“Once again, we thank Parliament for passing the
Bill and urge His Excellency the President, just like his colleague in
Nigeria, to assent to the Bill,” said the religious leaders in their
joint message to the President yesterday.
In the statement read by Metropolitan Jonah
Lwanga, the chairperson Council of Presidents, Inter-Religious Council
of Uganda, the religious leaders expressed shock at attempts by some
Ugandans, including highly placed persons in government, to overturn the
Bill.
“As religious leaders, we condemn any form of
discrimination against any gay persons, but we consider homosexuality
part of human weakness and sinfulness that must be dealt with at a
personal level through repentance,” Metropolitan
Lwanga said.
He said homosexuality is rooted in an
interpretation of human freedom that glorifies the finite nature of
human person within which such freedom is to be exercised.
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Archbishop Lwanga sacks Fr Musaala over sex claims
Fr Musaala hits back at Archbishop Lwanga
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2013/03/fr-musaala-hits-back-at-archbishop_3149.html
Cowed!!! Fr. Anthony Musaala, “Doubtless I have also caused trouble and confusion. Please forgive me if through selfishness, stubbornness or insensitivity I have hurt you. I am truly sorry.”
Father Musaala should know that you cant reform the catholic church: If you are disgruntled just leave, in addition you cant be born again and remain in the catholic church: Fr. Musaala affair heads to the Pope
Catholic Cover up: Catholic church to set up an Ad hoc Committee to Investigate alleged sexual abuses by priests : Findings of the investigations, according to Archbishop Lwanga, would not be made public because the Church has a cocooned mechanism of resolving such slip-ups. Mean while Fr.A. Musaala has been ordered to shut up!!!
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2013/04/catholic-cover-up-catholic-church-to.html
Accept and respect gays, says Catholic priest
Posted Sunday, January 31 2010 at 00:00
Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s proposed anti-gay law has given rise to serious discussions on whether it will not be a gross violation of human rights in legalising murder or criminalisation of citizens merely for being who they are. Ethics and Integrity Minister Dr Nsaba Buturo is said to have held multiple press conferences telling reporters that the law has the government’s support. He is further reported to have said bluntly that homosexuals can forget human rights (cf. Daily Monitor, Wednesday December 16).
Whereas religious leaders have been generally less vocal on problems affecting the majority of Ugandans like excessive inequality in the allocation of jobs, excessive misuse of public funds for self enrichment, unjust treatment of some regions and excessive corruption in all government sectors, which have rendered our leadership so rotten that a hyena dead for 10 days smells better; Catholic Church leaders, while not condoning homosexuality, have rendered the new proposed anti-gay law unnecessary. It is too brutal!
Having heard all that, I as a trained Catholic theologian would like to offer some reflection on this controversial topic. Essential to the Christian faith is that the principle source of revelation is the Bible. Biblically, male and female were created for a dual purpose conjugal and procreative for the continuous of the human species. Since homosexuality refers to relations between men or women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction towards persons of the same sex, it renders itself intrinsically disordered. Homosexual activities, while they may claim to be conjugal, fail to fulfill the procreative law and therefore under no circumstances can they be approved.
However, we also believe that God alone has the absolute knowledge of the natural law and so what we may condemn as unnatural may be one of those areas God may wish to show his power over what we regard as the laws of nature. This is why Jesus, on being asked whether the man born blind was a result of his parents’ or own sin, responded that it was done to show God’s supernatural power of healing. In my view, there are a good number of people born in a manner we would call abnormal, like children born with six fingers, Mongoloids or any other part of the body abnormally or unnaturally positioned in a strange way. A young boy born with six fingers was constantly teased by his peers who said “give me six!”
In the same way, every sign of unjust discrimination of homos should be avoided. They must be respected and accepted with compassion and sensitivity. They are all creatures of God! Why they are this way is not for us to ask. I would say this is a preferential will of God which is above human understanding and simply has to be accepted.
As creatures of God, these people have as much right to live as any of us. Their condition should be treated with sympathy and compassion. Therefore our anti-gay bill would constitute unjust discrimination. Unfortunately, some of our religious leaders, especially Anglicans, seem to condemn rather than approach this problem from a Christian perspective of love and sympathy. They have used the Bible as a book containing information which they can refer to, to justify their attack on homosexuals. Picking bits of the Bible to justify one’s point is a wrong approach. Homosexuality is a sin just like adultery, fornication, etc. Why capitalise on it and not adultery?
I know there are those who will emotionally jump to the conclusion that I condone homosexual activities. The Bible is not a textbook. It is understood by interpretation. To quote the Bible does not give credence to the “quoter”. I therefore appeal to our law makers to suspend their motions on this topic and be sympathetic to those who have this disorderedness not because of what they did but because like any other disorderedness, they too may not be blamed. They have as much right to live like any of us who claim to be perfectly created.
— Rev Fr Lawrence Kanyike
Makerere University
PROMINENT CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN REJECT
GAY BILL
Accept and respect gays, says Catholic priest
Posted Sunday, January 31 2010 at 00:00
Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s proposed anti-gay law has given rise to serious discussions on whether it will not be a gross violation of human rights in legalising murder or criminalisation of citizens merely for being who they are. Ethics and Integrity Minister Dr Nsaba Buturo is said to have held multiple press conferences telling reporters that the law has the government’s support. He is further reported to have said bluntly that homosexuals can forget human rights (cf. Daily Monitor, Wednesday December 16).
Whereas religious leaders have been generally less vocal on problems affecting the majority of Ugandans like excessive inequality in the allocation of jobs, excessive misuse of public funds for self enrichment, unjust treatment of some regions and excessive corruption in all government sectors, which have rendered our leadership so rotten that a hyena dead for 10 days smells better; Catholic Church leaders, while not condoning homosexuality, have rendered the new proposed anti-gay law unnecessary. It is too brutal!
Having heard all that, I as a trained Catholic theologian would like to offer some reflection on this controversial topic. Essential to the Christian faith is that the principle source of revelation is the Bible. Biblically, male and female were created for a dual purpose conjugal and procreative for the continuous of the human species. Since homosexuality refers to relations between men or women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction towards persons of the same sex, it renders itself intrinsically disordered. Homosexual activities, while they may claim to be conjugal, fail to fulfill the procreative law and therefore under no circumstances can they be approved.
However, we also believe that God alone has the absolute knowledge of the natural law and so what we may condemn as unnatural may be one of those areas God may wish to show his power over what we regard as the laws of nature. This is why Jesus, on being asked whether the man born blind was a result of his parents’ or own sin, responded that it was done to show God’s supernatural power of healing. In my view, there are a good number of people born in a manner we would call abnormal, like children born with six fingers, Mongoloids or any other part of the body abnormally or unnaturally positioned in a strange way. A young boy born with six fingers was constantly teased by his peers who said “give me six!”
In the same way, every sign of unjust discrimination of homos should be avoided. They must be respected and accepted with compassion and sensitivity. They are all creatures of God! Why they are this way is not for us to ask. I would say this is a preferential will of God which is above human understanding and simply has to be accepted.
As creatures of God, these people have as much right to live as any of us. Their condition should be treated with sympathy and compassion. Therefore our anti-gay bill would constitute unjust discrimination. Unfortunately, some of our religious leaders, especially Anglicans, seem to condemn rather than approach this problem from a Christian perspective of love and sympathy. They have used the Bible as a book containing information which they can refer to, to justify their attack on homosexuals. Picking bits of the Bible to justify one’s point is a wrong approach. Homosexuality is a sin just like adultery, fornication, etc. Why capitalise on it and not adultery?
I know there are those who will emotionally jump to the conclusion that I condone homosexual activities. The Bible is not a textbook. It is understood by interpretation. To quote the Bible does not give credence to the “quoter”. I therefore appeal to our law makers to suspend their motions on this topic and be sympathetic to those who have this disorderedness not because of what they did but because like any other disorderedness, they too may not be blamed. They have as much right to live like any of us who claim to be perfectly created.
— Rev Fr Lawrence Kanyike
Makerere University
