Burundi president calls for stoning of gay couples
Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye launched a virulent anti-gay tirade on Friday, saying same-sex couples should be publicly stoned.
He also lashed out at Western countries that press other nations to allow gay rights or risk losing aid.
Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.
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Remember that when people claim it's only Islam that is brutal to queer people. It's so many religions.
Russia is full of atheists and they are also brutal to queer people. Excising religion from the world isn't going to solve that.
FYI, if you're reading this in dark mode, that graph will look visually misleading. The white is changed to a shade of grey, you have to actually go to Wikipedia or disable dark mode...
Opposition to LGBTQ rights in modern Russia started under Stalin who was a supporter of the League of Militant Atheists and an avowed enemy to all religions. Soviet leaders after Stalin continued and in some cases intensified his anti-LGBTQ policies. Modern Russia simply inherited hostility for LGBTQ from pro-atheist USSR.
It's worth noting the Bolsheviks decriminalized homosexuality prior to Stalin taking power. Point is neither a religious nor atheist society will necessarily be better for LGBTQ rights. It depends on what flavor of religion or atheism is dominating society.
You can very clearly see a trend where the more pro-LGBT countries are the less religious.
I haven't seen any studies, but I wouldn't be surprised if you're right. However, less religious is not the same as atheist or anti-religion.
There are plenty of folks that identify as LGBTQ as well as their allies that believe in God and may even participate or quasi-participate in organized religion. They will present arguments like, "God made them this way so who am I to hate them?" or, "We are all God's children," or what have you.
Anyways, an atheistic society doesn't guarantee an LGBTQ-friendly society.
We can also see lack of LGBTQ protections in Mainland China which is overwhelmingly atheist.
Gotta start with something
Just about every hospital near me was started by charitable religious folks. Religion has caused a lot of harm, but also tons of good. Let's not toss the baby out with the bathwater.
Do you think these extremely profitable hospitals would not exist if not for the benevolence of churches?! Lol 🤣
The church branding is just branding. There has never, ever been benevolence involved in corporate healthcare. Never.
It's so insane to me how quickly Lemmy almost as a whole has been ideologically subverted, they can not even see wool as it is being pulled over their eyes.
I am a nonbeliever, but I am a truthseeker. The majority of an entire world's generation has already been subverted in one area or another, due to global media. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok or YouTube, Douyin or Telegram; an entire generation has grown up ingesting content specifically engineered to target them and program them to think a certain way.
I suppose it's not much different than traditional television and radio media from the 1920s onward, and paper before that.
The tides are just turning so. much. faster.
May those with the best tooling and best protected undersea cables win.
The record is so bad it gets its own Wikipedia entry.
Source for above quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi
This guy's a clown and a failure of a leader. His country is a mess and he can't run it properly. Maybe he should focus on his own failures before attributing failures to others.
I was just thinking about the connection between homophobia and poverty.
It's always the poor nations that focus their efforts on things that don't matter.
You don't get it. It's because of all the gays
A lot of countries have their own "Human Rights in " page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sweden
So, a conservative country then.
Bet you a shiny nickel that guy’s smoking pole behind closed doors.
100% still closeted
What if we stoned homophobes instead?
it's funny because being homophobic is a choice, being gay isn't. So indeed it makes more sense to punish homophobes, as they are the ones who can actually change.
I love asking homophobics when they chose to be straight. Really catches them off guard.
Neither is a choice. I used to be anti-gay on my teenage years aswell. Now I love dick.
So you're still homophobic?
Apparently so
What if we all got stoned all the time?
Too many, we would run out of rocks.
Ya know what... I'm gonna say it... These guys are jerks.
Meanwhile, I'm calling for the stoning of conservative, christian Burundi presidents.
Love your next like you love yourself and so on...
The only difference between the conservative Burundi government and the conservative American government is what they think they can get away.
Thanks, colonialism!
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According to the article, being queer was criminalized as late as 2009. That's just people being dickheads because they can. :p
/unrelated
I always check credibility of news sites I don't recognize. This one has mixed credibility for failing some fact checks in the past.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vanguard-news-nigeria-bias/