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sparkindarknessThis is something that is bugging me a little but I want to make a full post on it so I’ll come back to it.
Pepsi has declared that they are shocked and appalled about the terrible homophobia and violence espoused by the bigot, the Beanie Man and they’d never ever have sponsored him if they had known and are Most Cross with their bottling partners who didn’t realise that it was homophobic.
Uh-huh. Yeah this is my “believe” face. Truly. Because I’m sure you OFTEN sponsor things without ANY idea what they are, right? (Sparky’s take: Pepsi didn’t really give a damn what their bottlers in Africa were doing and the bottlers in Africa saw this as been real popular in Uganda and didn’t realise lot’s of pissed of gay people would notice - so it was arse covering time!).
Rick Warren, the Catholic church (helllo, Archbishop of Canterbury? The freaking Catholic church beat you! Stop playing “more hateful than thou!” already) and the White House (What the hell? The Catholic Church and Rick freaking Warren beat you to the punch?! What’s up with that?) have all finally condemned Uganda
Yeah, again, really not impressed here. Sure, it’s good that they have condemned it (finally) and it’s certainly better than Rowan bloody Williams’ deciding to keep silence because he’s too busy getting huffy about a Lesbian bishop (which is TOTALLY more important than rounding up gay people en masse and killing them, totally).
But really, is this supposed to be believed to be sincere? Really? Because to me it looks like buckling in face of increasing, furious rage - it looks like back peddling, like arse covering, like a token PR gesture when you realised just how much it’s NOT just going to go away.
We’ve been talking about it for a long damn time in the face of the silence. What did you need that time for? Did you need thinking time? Was the act debateable to you? Were you unsure whether you’d be against it or not?
I’m glad they’ve condemned it. I’m ecstatic they’re piling on the pressure. I dearly hope that the pressure will be enough to stop this evil happening. I hope like hell we can avoid having another death penalty country added to this map. I hope there won’t be another country added to the list of those that LEGALLY kill homosexuals.
But the delay sent a message all of its own - and that worries me. That worries me a lot.
Pepsi has declared that they are shocked and appalled about the terrible homophobia and violence espoused by the bigot, the Beanie Man and they’d never ever have sponsored him if they had known and are Most Cross with their bottling partners who didn’t realise that it was homophobic.
Uh-huh. Yeah this is my “believe” face. Truly. Because I’m sure you OFTEN sponsor things without ANY idea what they are, right? (Sparky’s take: Pepsi didn’t really give a damn what their bottlers in Africa were doing and the bottlers in Africa saw this as been real popular in Uganda and didn’t realise lot’s of pissed of gay people would notice - so it was arse covering time!).
Rick Warren, the Catholic church (helllo, Archbishop of Canterbury? The freaking Catholic church beat you! Stop playing “more hateful than thou!” already) and the White House (What the hell? The Catholic Church and Rick freaking Warren beat you to the punch?! What’s up with that?) have all finally condemned Uganda
Yeah, again, really not impressed here. Sure, it’s good that they have condemned it (finally) and it’s certainly better than Rowan bloody Williams’ deciding to keep silence because he’s too busy getting huffy about a Lesbian bishop (which is TOTALLY more important than rounding up gay people en masse and killing them, totally).
But really, is this supposed to be believed to be sincere? Really? Because to me it looks like buckling in face of increasing, furious rage - it looks like back peddling, like arse covering, like a token PR gesture when you realised just how much it’s NOT just going to go away.
We’ve been talking about it for a long damn time in the face of the silence. What did you need that time for? Did you need thinking time? Was the act debateable to you? Were you unsure whether you’d be against it or not?
I’m glad they’ve condemned it. I’m ecstatic they’re piling on the pressure. I dearly hope that the pressure will be enough to stop this evil happening. I hope like hell we can avoid having another death penalty country added to this map. I hope there won’t be another country added to the list of those that LEGALLY kill homosexuals.
But the delay sent a message all of its own - and that worries me. That worries me a lot.