Secretary Clinton on LGBT Rights in Geneva

[OrphanPip]

It's an interesting development certainly. Most of the anti-sodomy laws on the books in Africa were introduced by European colonialism. The devil's advocate in me sees this as problematic because of the issue of cultural imperialism, and the use of wealth to leverage the moral conscience of a nation isn't likely to produce any positive results. It's not like blackmailing the Ugandan government will do much to help the situation of gays and lesbians in the country. They are more likely to suffer from a number of less directly state sponsored forms of oppression.