As more reports indicate that several Ugandans are willing to give up all international aid to keep the anti-homosexuality law, new findings indicate that the habit might be establishing roots unnoticed in our schools.
The report reveals that Butterfly Works and the World Population Foundation (WPF) in collaboration with SchoolNet Uganda developed a computer-based comprehensive sexuality education curriculum in 2003 that targets secondary school students and their teachers.
In the exposed curriculum, Daily Monitor says that the organisations portray homosexuality and masturbation as fulfilling sexual attributes among people who have consented and one way of controlling unwanted teenage pregnancies and early marriages. Further more, it advocates that if two partners are not ready for sex, they should stick to only kissing, holding hands and hugging.
As recent western world reports have constantly revealed, Masturbation is a common way of self satisfaction used to achieve orgasm. A lot of theories have been published about the long term and short term effects of masturbation but, what most researchers have brought to the public are allegations showing that masturbation is one way of maintaining a healthy life.
Such a curriculum contradicts Ethics minister Lokodo, also a former evangelical Christian pastor, who urges that Homosexuality cannot be accommodated in our culture. “We have taken that position as a government because this is a democracy and it is what the people want.”
Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway all froze aid to Uganda’s government at one moment in February 2014 due to the anti-homosexuality Law. Washington was “reviewing its relationship” with Uganda over the law, which John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, compared to Nazism and apartheid.
Daily monitor states that Ms Grace Baguma, the director National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), denied knowledge of the curriculum, saying her first time to see the controversial curriculum was two weeks ago when the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) officials invited her team to explain the sex education content for schools.
In an interview with Daily Monitor, Fr Silvester Arinaitwe, the UJCC executive secretary, condemned the sex education material in the school curriculum, saying it was destined to destroy Christian values on whose foundation the country is built.
He said they have a list of schools which have been participating and added that UJCC intends to take the matter further to establish the impact the content has had on graduates from these schools.
To the Ministry of Education, which is responsible for what children are exposed to while at school, it is reported that the ministry distanced itself from the content of the report but admitted being aware of it and the organisation, which is hosted at Embassy House, the same building which houses the ministry headquarters in Kampala.
Mr Daniel Kakinda, the SchoolNet director, admitted the sex content in the curriculum but was quick to add that it was revised in 2012 with financing from RutgersWPF to suit the Ugandan society.
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editor@ugchristiannews.com – Photo – Supporters celebrate after Uganda’s President Museveni signed a law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality in Kampala . Credit: REUTERS
