Ugandan Minister Receives Dozens of Threats Daily from British and American Homosexual Activists

“With such words and language used, I have noticed that those people are sick. They need help.” -- Ugandan Minister James Nsaba Buturo

From "Ugandan Minister Receives Dozens of Threats Daily from Homosexual Activists" by Elizabeth O'Brien, posted 6/29/07 at Lifesite.net

Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo admitted that he receives nearly two dozen emails daily from homosexual activists worldwide, reports Uganda’s Daily Monitor.

“I receive at least 20 abusive and threatening mails on my life daily,” he stated. “As I speak now, I have seen about 11 mails on my email address waiting for me to read.”

“The language those people use while writing messages to me is horrible,” he added. “I can’t read them out because it will be a shame for me.”

Minister Buturo referred to the language in the messages again, saying: “With such words and language used, I have noticed that those people are sick. They need help.”

At present homosexual marriage is a criminal offense within Uganda. A 2005 amendment to Ugandan law specifically states, “It is unlawful for same-sex couples to marry.”

Nevertheless, AllAfrica.com reports, the Minister stated that when dealing with homosexuals the government “does not plan to vilify and criminalise homosexuals,” but rather, “It will support measures to counsel and help them understand that their state is not normal or natural but a serious social and psychological aberration in human behaviour” (See http://allafrica.com/stories/200706290189.html).

According to both the Monitor and AllAfrica.com, last year the minister threatened to arrest leaders of a new homosexual church group that was supposedly forming in Uganda. Although this might seem to be a cause for the flood of threats, most of the messages have been coming from the United Kingdom and the United States.

Interestingly, what homosexual advocates might consider to be the most 'homophobic' country in Africa, Uganda, is quickly becoming one of the healthiest.

Uganda is the FIRST country to actually DECREASE HIV rates -- by encouraging abstinence and faithfulness to one's spouse...

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TV Viewing Hazardous to Moral Health, CMI Study Finds

From "TV Viewing Hazardous to Moral Health, CMI Study Finds" by Gudrun Schultz, posted 6/7/07 at Lifesite.org

Heavy television watching parallels a decline in moral values and a sense of personal responsibility, a new study by the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Center has found.

In a new Special Report entitled “The Media Assault on American Values,” released by the CMI June 6, a clear correlation was shown to exist between an increase in the number of hours a viewer spent watching TV and a decline in the strength of personal moral values. The report explored the findings of the National Cultural Values Survey, a major study of American cultural and moral values conducted in December 2006.

Among the areas affected by TV viewing habits were attitudes towards abortion, charitable giving, sexual morality, financial self-sufficiency on healthcare and retirement, and church attendance.

On the issue of abortion, 44 percent of light TV viewers (those who watch one hour or less per night, accounting for 22.5 percentage of the population) said abortion is wrong, compared to 27 percent of heavy TV viewers (those who watch four hours or more per night, accounting for 25 percent of the population).

While 39 percent of light TV viewers said sex outside of marriage was always wrong, only 26 percent of heavy viewers considered sex outside of marriage to be always wrong.

Fifty-five percent of light viewers said homosexuality is wrong, while only 43 percent of heavy viewers agreed. Sixty-four percent of light viewers opposed same-sex marriage, compared to 57 percent of heavy TV viewers.

While only 28 percent of heavy viewers are frequent church goers, 47 percent of light viewers go to church regularly. More than half (51 percent) of heavy viewers said they rarely or never attended church, while only 29 percent of light viewers said they went to church “rarely or never”.

When it came to a sense of financial and social responsibility, heavy viewers were much more likely to expect the government to provide for their health and retirement needs than light viewers, and they were much less likely to support charities. Sixty-four percent of heavy TV watchers expect the government to provide for their retirement needs, and 63 percent expect health care coverage, compared to light viewers at 43 percent and 48 percent, respectively.

Heavy viewers were more than twice as likely not to give to charitable causes (24 percent light viewers to 11 percent heavy viewers) and not to volunteer (56 percent light viewers to 27 percent heavy viewers).

“Are the media influencing Americans to duck responsibility for their own decisions and behavior?” CMI asked in its executive summary of the report. “By undermining core moral values, are the media leading Americans away from a mature acceptance of personal responsibility for their own lives and for their obligations to others?”

The study cited results from the Cultural Values survey that found 74 percent of Americans believe the moral values of the country have fallen over the past 20 years, and 68 percent of respondents blamed the media for contributing significantly to that decline.

The National Cultural Values Survey was conducted by the professional polling firm of Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates. The survey collected data from 2,000 adult U.S. citizens through 1,000 telephone interviews and 1,000 Internet questionnaires. Margin for error is +/- 2.2 percent at the 95 percent confidence level.

Americans Declare Abortion, Adultery, Polygamy, Cloning and Suicide Immoral -- but Not Much Else

From "Abortion, Affairs, Polygamy, Cloning, Suicide on List of Morally Wrong Behaviours" posted 6/5/07 at Lifesite.net

A large majority of adults in the United States believe four specific behaviours are unprincipled, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 91 per cent of respondents believe married men and women having an affair is morally wrong, while 90 per cent feel the same way about polygamy.

Cloning humans is next on the list of perceived immoral behaviours with 86 per cent, followed by suicide with 78 per cent, cloning animals with 59 per cent, and abortion with 51 per cent (with 40% finding it acceptable).

Conversely, more than 60 per cent of respondents think the death penalty, divorce, "medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos" and gambling are morally acceptable.

Pre-marital sex is thought to be acceptable by 59% and wrong by 38%. Having a baby outside of marriage is seen as wrong by 42% but acceptable by 54%.

Acceptability of doctor-assisted suicide was found at 49% with 44% believing it wrong. The study also found that Americans are nearly evenly split on acceptability of "homosexual relations" with a slight majority (49%) believing such relationships wrong and 47% suggesting the behaviour as acceptable.

The survey was conducted via telephone interviews with 1,003 American adults, from May 10 to May 13, 2007. The margin of error is 3 per cent.

Respondents were asked, "Next, I'm going to read you a list of issues. Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, for each one, please tell me whether you personally believe that in general it is morally acceptable or morally wrong."

Pew Study Says One in Four Young American Muslims Condones Terror

From "A Hair Raising Poll" posted 5/23/07 at NewYorkPost.com

It's hard not to be troubled by a new poll that suggests that as many as one in four young American Muslims condones suicide bombings against civilians, at least sometimes.

That equates to about 117,000 Muslims between ages 18 and 29. Another 6 percent of those aged 30 and over - that is, 63,000 more - likewise say terror strikes at times may be OK.

"It is a hair-raising number," says Radwan Masmoudi, of the Center for Islam and Democracy, referring to U.S. Muslim support for suicide attacks. (Masmoudi's group promotes efforts to reconcile Islam with democratic culture.)

He's absolutely right.

Indeed, the findings, released by the Pew Research Center, constitute a strong warning about the need for vigilance on the homefront.

Because American Muslims, as the study found, are "largely assimilated," those who are inclined toward terror can be difficult to identify.

After all, terrorists operate incognito - and it takes only a few to cause untold pain. Just 19 men managed to hijack four planes and murder 3,000 people on 9/11.

The stats about the under-30 group's support for terror are especially disconcerting. About 11 percent back suicide bombings "rarely," another 13 percent "sometimes" and 2 percent "often."

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