I see. Thank you.
We know from reports that gays and lesbians are routinely harassed, discriminated against, and are in fact jailed. This has been going on for quite some time.
You have brought a series of very important points, and some very technical points, and I was speaking to the chair about some of them. What we maybe need as a committee after today is probably to come up with a motion that might be appropriate to deal with some of those technical points.
Although we might not have a motion by today, we're hoping that maybe in working with staff we can come up with something. Working with you as well, we could come up with a motion that will deal with some of your technical points that you raised today on what we as a committee could do. So I would ask that you be in touch with us.
I just wanted you to also maybe give us a description of what's taking place and as well give us an understanding--especially myself, as a gay person, because I sometimes have a hard time understanding--of how these views came to be. There have been discussions in the media about the fact that Ugandans feel that homosexuality was brought out by the western powers. Then there are those who have said it has to do with some of the Christian evangelical churches coming forward from the U.S. and stirring up this problem. Generally speaking, Africans have a negative view about homosexuality. What is the real story here? We've been hearing all these different stories, but we're not sure what exactly is the truth, because we're hearing it through second-hand and third-hand parties.