Uganda's Anti-Gay Law

 

Uganda has just made being openly homosexual illegal. Protests are pouring in that this is a violation of human rights.

It is not. 

Making public advocacy of homosexual sex illegal may be unkind, but it is not a violation of human rights. Any more than making public advocacy of sex outside marriage illegal, or banning pornography, would be. There is a human right to procreation, but not to recreational sex. Specific sexual acts can be prohibited. Rape is prohibited. Sex with a minor is prohibited. Incest is prohibited.

There may be a public interest in prohibiting homosexuality. For example, in a time of collapsing birth rates worldwide, a government might consider it important to impose such a measure to encourage heterosexuality and procreation. The dogma of the homosexual rights lobby is that homosexuals are “born this way,” and there is no possibility of social contagion. But this claim has never been proven, and seems improbable. A government might want to suppress homosexual propaganda, not only for the sake of population support, and for the benefit of unmarried women, but because an addiction to homosexual sex is unfortunate for the addict, just as becoming addicted to some drug would be. The vast majority of those a gay man is sexually attracted to will reject his advances. It cannot be easy to find a loving partner, or to experience constant unrequited love.

The Ugandan law seems especially concerned with the spread of disease, including AIDS. And this too is reasonable. It is simply true that homosexual sex is more likely to spread diseases than heterosexual sex. This might also justify a law against its promotion.