Family Watch International (FWI) is helping organize international support for Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his government which is under increasing pressure from radical homosexual activists to change that country’s tough laws against homosexual behaviour. 

The latest attack came in an August 23rd letter from Scott Long, a program director for the homosexual "rights” advocacy group, Human Rights Watch (HRW). 

Long accused the Ugandan government of making "threatening statements” toward homosexuals, "harassing” them and committing "rights abuses” against them.

In her own September 12th letter to President Museveni, FWI President Sharon Slater labelled the HRW charges and complaints "ridiculous.” 

She noted that "As long as those who violate these laws (regarding homosexuality) are afforded the same protections of their civil rights as any other Ugandan accused of violating Ugandan laws, the majority of people around the world would agree that your government is completely justified in enforcing your own laws.”

As part of encouraging others to support Uganda, Family Watch International has created a special Web site, www.SupportUganda.org. 

Through this site, individuals around the world can easily send emails to President Museveni, the Attorney General and other key leaders in Uganda, and urge their government to stand firm. 

The site offers a prepared message of support and also provides visitors with more information about the issue.

In her letter, Slater also points out the basic fallacy on which groups like HRW base their demands: that homosexuals must be granted special rights because they are "born that way.” 

She notes, "There is no scientifically valid research to support the idea that homosexuality is innate and immutable.” 

Rather, "there is overwhelming evidence that although it can be a very difficult process, many individuals are able to successfully reorient from unwanted same-sex attraction to heterosexuality, some on their own, others through therapy. 

This further proves that homosexuality is not fixed or inevitable.”

The FWI letter also challenges the contention of HRW, that since Uganda is a party to the UN International Convention on Civil and Political Rights drafted in 1966, that this treaty now requires Uganda to repeal its laws prohibiting homosexual activity. 

They state that the UN Human Rights Committee is urging countries to amend their constitutions to recognize equal treatment based on sexual orientation. 

Slater labelled the ongoing effort by UN committees and outside pressure groups to twist and expand the meaning of terms in such treaties "an increasingly serious threat to national sovereignty.” 

Dr.Martin Ssempa,   
Spokesperson

Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality