Is Uganda Making A Mistake On Homosexuality?

The US is only one of many countries condemning Uganda for criminalizing homosexual activity. What has happened in the US since it accepted homosexuality, suggests Uganda may have saved itself many problems. It has been 73 years since the US government condemned homosexuality. As it slowly accepted homosexuality, the US has gone from neutrality to promoting it worldwide; and from protecting its children from homosexual predation to allowing its schools and media -- even children's cartoons -- to promote it.

In 1950, Hoey’s US Senate Committee, in line with traditional Judeo-Christian thought, concluded homosexuals were disturbed, disruptive, and promoted homosexuality so intensely that one “homosexual can pollute a government office.” If one homosexual can sully an office, can acceptance of homosexuality pollute a society?

The mental health professions issue a resounding ‘no.’ In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared homosexuality ‘normal’ and by 2014 assured the world (and Uganda) that homosexuals “pose no harm to society.” The American Psychological Association (2009) joined in with “same-sex sexual and romantic attractions, feelings, and behaviors are normal and positive variations of human sexuality.”

Below is a list of events that suggest the US is suffering homosexual ‘pollution.’

#1: LGBTs Demand You Watch ‘Pro-Gay Commercials’

Perhaps the most annoying aspect of having freed homosexuals from censure in the US is their intrusion into Americans’ leisure time. Most normal people find homosexual activities as off-putting as those of underwear thieves -- we simply don’t want to know how they do it or why they do it. Yet if you want to watch a romance on TV, homosexual romance – essentially a pro-gay commercial -- is included. LGBTs have even sprinkled themselves throughout children’s cartoons, Disney’s especially.

The placement of essentially ‘pro-homosexual commercials’ in almost every US media product has become so irritating that many have given up viewing; or allowing their children to watch, any main-line media product made in the last couple of years.

But this is far more than annoying.
Attention sells product.
Homosexuality has risen in tandem with the prevalence of pro-gay commercials on screens and in schools. If underwear thieves were given the same volume of sympathetic commercials, every year’s stolen underwear in the US alone would easily fill its Grand Canyon.

Any kind of attention gives some reason to ‘monkey see, monkey do.’ Of greatest importance, is attention. Some are simply dying to get attention, to get on TV, to be noticed. So even if it’s stupid attention, like being semi-nude and acting like a fool in a Pride Parade, some say ‘humm, people might notice me if I joined them.’ Just about every mass murderer who gets press attention and a trial gets multiple offers from women who want to marry him and dozens of ‘wantabes’ wondering how much the noose hurts, etc. if they can only grab the limelight.

The desire for what appears to be ‘cheap’ attention, drives many into trans. After they get ‘fixed’ by the same professionals that assured them it was ‘necessary,’ and after they get over the first glow of attention, then they realize the professionals are walking away with money in their pockets and they are going to have to live the rest of their life mutilated and looking like a freak.

#2: More US Youth, Especially Girls, Are Engaging In Homosexuality

In the 2021 US Youth Risk Behavior Survey, only 75.5% of high school students claimed to ‘be’ heterosexual’ (20 years ago it was 92.1%). Girls are tilting toward homosexuality.

But instead of what respondents said they ‘are’ (which doesn’t tell us what respondents did), we report the percent of students claiming -- in the last three months -- to have engaged in ‘only heterosexual’ sex or ‘some homosexuality (perhaps including heterosexuality)’ by sex and race in Table 1. While large and well done, this is still a sample: the results are not ‘the’ unmitigated truth.

Table 1: Percentage US HS Students Reporting Kinds Of Sex In Last 3 Months

Forty years ago, as near as we could tell, more boys than girls engaged in homosexuality – either along with heterosexuality or exclusively so. Over the past few decades, homosexual activity appears to have doubled or trebled among boys, and rocketed -- perhaps even by a factor of 6 or 7 -- in girls.

Only females can have babies, no matter what the mental health professions assert about men becoming women. The US demographic needs all the mothers it can get. The growth of homosexual activity among girls suggests even more of our next crop of maybe-mothers will be as, if not more frequently, childless even as our current crop of women are choosing childlessness or few children. In this way, homosexuality is compounding our growing demographic problem. While Uganda's birth rate is robust today, given the declining birth rates across the globe, The US experience should be a warning.

Analyses not shown here suggest:

1. Asians were the least apt to report ‘sexual intercourse before the age of 13 years’ (Blacks tilted toward being the most to report ‘sexual intercourse before the age of 13 years’); and
2. 36% of girls and 11% of boys who reported sexual activity in the 9th grade said they engaged in homosexuality. However, by 12th grade, when more kids engaged in sex, only 23% of girls and 7% of boys reported homosexual involvement.

Race: In Table 1, the Asian subculture appears to be more protective of its kids’ sexuality -- either before age 13 or later in high school -- than the other subcultures when it comes to heterosexuality. Indeed, in many studies (including this one), Asian students generally score lower in substance abuse, mental problems, and social disruption. Validating this general superiority, Asian students do better at schooling than the other sub-cultures’ kids do. The Asian subculture seems to have been the only one of the four to diminish the effect of our culture on the early sexualization as well as the homosexualism of girls. But when it came to homosexual activity, Asian boys appeared as influenced by the larger culture to about the same degree as boys of the other races in Table 1.

The children from the Black subculture, with ~70% of them not having a resident father (much less a married mother and father) and thus in many respects considerably disadvantaged, gave only a hint of extra homosexuality. This casts doubt on Freudian notions that family dynamics are the primary force behind children’s homosexuality.

Sex among the young: Just about every investigator has found homosexual activity more frequent among kids who ‘start sexual activity’ young. As these kids aged and more of them were participating in sex, a growing number engaged in heterosexuality and few tried homosexuality, making this sample’s distribution seem typical and therefore ‘likely a reasonable sample.’

We don’t know how much sex these kids claimed, only with whom.

Are they telling the truth? We just don’t know. But this is what they claimed.

#3: Trans – Basically Elaborate Drag – Is Destroying Thousands of Kids’ Lives

Men can dress and makeup cleverly enough to look like women. But not after their camouflage is removed. Likewise for trans. Stripped of camouflage (which often includes hormonal injections and surgery), trans look like mutilated versions of their birth sex [visit a surgeon-that-does-trans-operations’ website to verify this with your own eyes].

Trans started in 1952 with a gay’s claim that he had just returned from Denmark where hormones and surgery made him into a woman. Given the enormous anatomical and physiological differences between men and women, not to mention that New York City gay bars had many a drag show even in 1952, this was an incredible claim. Indeed, an even more unbelievable claim than the ability to transform lead into gold. Had the gay made the latter claim we can be sure that the New York Post would not have validated his claim and given him worldwide publicity without making him produce the gold. Instead of at least examining the evidence that he ‘was’ a woman – which would have taken considerable effort in that his anatomy and physiology would have had to have been examined -- he was transformed by the Post into a ‘she’ because of his camouflage and a smile [making it more likely that the reporter and/or editors were either homosexual or highly pro-homosexual; then again, the press wants ‘controversy’ to gain eyeballs and thereby sell attention]. Of course, today even though men cannot be transformed into women, the Associated Press ‘grants’ opposite-sex status to those who pretend to be so. And following homosexuals’ and mental health associations’ claim that operations and hormones can make you into the opposite sex, according to a recent Washington Post poll, only about half of US young adults believe your sex is fixed at birth.

Had homosexuality not been legitimated, trans would likely still be a rare and elaborate drag procedure for wealthy gays. Today, 67% of states’ Medicaid programs include gender-affirming hormone therapy; and 49% pay for genital surgery. Perhaps the American Medical Assn (2021) thought it made $ense to claim “gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care that improves the physical and mental health of transgender … people” instead of warning that changing your sex is impossible. How can deceiving others about your sex be a ‘medical necessity?’ Is drag only included as ‘medicine’ if it isn’t too flamboyant?

Because the Democrat party is largely woke, laws in many states not only protect kids’ ‘right’ to engage in homosexuality or become trans, but also threaten parents with the loss of their children if they interfere! Testimony at Capitol hearings suggests that these laws have resulted in thousands of placements in foster homes in Democrat Colorado alone. And -- in the case of trans – to support a professionally-lucrative lie.

Another Byproduct of considering gays ‘just as good,’ Half of Americans Believe You Can Change Your Sex

The NBC April 2023 Poll of 1,000 US adults reported that 61% of its respondents agreed with ‘our country’ should ‘become more tolerant and accepting of the LGBTQ community.’ But 59% said “we have gone too far promoting” LGBT “lifestyles in our culture.” Also, 48% agreed with ‘we have gone too far in accepting transgender people,’ while 43% agreed ‘we have not gone far enough in ending discrimination against transgender people.’ When Respondents think something is popular or feel the one asking the questions wants them to agree, respondents will often agree with whatever they think is the ‘hoped for’ answer. So these contradictory Findings may be considerably different from what people actually believe. Still, it appears that between the homosexuals, the media, and the mental health experts saying you can change your sex, about half of US citizens think its possible.

Asked whether “you or a family member, friend, or coworker are transgender,” 28% said ‘yes.’ The average US adult appears to know ~600 people, so if about a quarter to half a percent of US adults say they are trans, depending on what constitutes a ‘friend’ as opposed to an ‘acquaintance,’ 28% seems reasonable. All of this disruption from a gay’s and the US Media’s lie about making a man into a woman.

The newest social philosophy worming its way into the US ruling class’s goals is ‘woke.’ Wokeness, which has significant moorings in the gay liberation movement (see GT Angelo’s boast in the Wall Street Journal 4/13/23), is a vigorously pro-homosexual/anti-heterosexual, pro-black/anti-white, pro-trans/anti-normal, pro-feeling/anti-rational, pro-equality/anti-achievement, pro-female/anti-male philosophy of ‘necessary biases to achieve equality and [what we believe is] true righteousness.’

Twenty-five percent of those NBC polled said they considered themselves to “be woke.”

The NBC poll’s opinions about trans mesh with FRI’s 2020 poll. We found that about a third of adults (largely religious and Republican) said trans were ‘abnormal,’ a third (largely irreligious and Democrat) that trans were ‘normal,’ and another third were undecided.

These two polls suggest our society may yet be evenly split on homosexuality, even though when asked whether society should accept homosexuality, a clear majority say ‘yes.’

Has the acceptance of homosexuality been as devastating as the Judeo-Christian faith warned? While it is ambiguous about just what will happen in a given society, Moses (De 32:32) argued that the treatment of homosexuality was (often) the hinge on which a society’s success hung. Of course, other things – as invasions or epidemics – can end a society. But homosexual taste is one of the most powerful addictions, frequently being placed ahead of patriotism, honor, or health. Homosexuals more frequently molest children, have multiple partners, spread sexually transmissible diseases, mix sex and pain, engage in criminality, and fail to reproduce. The US didn’t accept homosexuality the instant the American Psychiatric Association called it normal, but it’s decision was huge. Laws against homosexuality were questioned even when FDR, then Secretary of the Navy, moved against homosexuality in 1919. But the APA’s 1973 normal encouraged homosexuals to be decidedly more aggressive and had a lot to do with the emergence of massive Pride Parades.

1973 was 50 years ago:
1) US girls’ turn toward homosexuality is upon us and threatens our demographic future;

2) our society is deeply troubled by LGBTs’ insistence on the lie that sex can be changed. This lie has distressed many a family and tormented thousands of kids; &

3) the number of pro-gay commercials in contemporary entertainment and mixed into what US children are taught in school is increasing.

It takes a lot of ruining to end a society, especially one as successful as the US. But where we are now is deeply troubling. As will be documented in my next column, the acceptance of homosexuality has blinded our most highly educated, including our scientists. If, as the church fathers claimed, God hates homosexuality so much that He might well end society because of it, what happens next might be a whole lot worse.

Paul Cameron, Ph.D.
Chairman, Family Research Institute
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