http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20091217/twl-eu-britain-uganda-gay-death-penalty-c8e2916.html
LONDON – Politicians are criticizing the BBC for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda.
The broadcaster launched an on-line debate over a proposed Ugandan law that would punish some homosexual acts by life imprisonment or death.
BBC's "Africa Have Your Say" Web site asked for people's views on whether Uganda has gone too far and whether there should be any laws against gays.
But several British politicians said Wednesday that the BBC should not treat the execution of gays as a legitimate topic for discussion.
Opposition lawmaker Lynne Featherstone has written to BBC executives seeking an apology and end to the Web discussion. "The BBC are only fanning the flames of hatred as many of the comments demonstrate," she says.
And here is the BBC link where the debate is, which has now been closed.
Perhaps I could suggest some future topics
"Hitler: Evil or just misunderstood?"
"Slavery: Wrong or just good job security?"
"Women's rights or just plain wrong?"
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=7347&edition=2&ttl=20091217051515
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
WHO IS JESUS REALLY?
