It was even more distressing to hear that it occurred three weeks after a Ugandan court handed him and the local TBLG community a major victory by ordering the virulently anti gay Rolling Stone newspaper to cease and desist in their practice of posting the names, photos and addresses of GLBT people in the country because it was putting their lives in jeopardy.
About the only thing positive that came out of it was that it halted the UK's imminent deportation of a lesbian who had been living in Great Britain for eight years back to Uganda.
Brenda Namigadde feared she would be killed if that happened and she had every right to feel that way. She was told by the notorious homophobic Ugandan MP David Bahati, the author of the 'Kill The Gays' bill that seeks to impose the death penalty for homosexuality, to repent or be arrested on her return.
But what angered me even further was reading about what happened at Kato's funeral in his ancestral hometown .
Anglican minister Thomas Musoke waited until the end of an emotional ceremony to grab the microphone and launch into a homophobic tirade that shocked the dozens of gay men and women as well as foreign diplomats in attendance. A scuffle ensued and Musoke was eventually led away by the po-po's.Damn, David Kato couldn't even be buried in peace.
Pastor Musoke claimed in his tirade that the world had gone mad and even this new jack Pharisee has a point.
The world has most definitely gone mad when alleged religious people seem to think that their bigotry and hatred of TBLG people is justified by their holy book. They must also be mad when they take it a step further in killing and depriving people they hate of their human rights because of who they love.
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