BBC.com asks users: 'Should homosexuals face execution?'

[Neil]

If only you used this approach more often..

Is that the way you were taught to speak to your betters?

Or is this just public foreplay?

Is Martinus actually Jaron's better?  I rather doubt it.

[Martinus]

As someone said on TheAdvocate, try replacing "homosexuals" with any other minority group and see how much balls BBC have to pose a question like this. I think the question is completely unacceptable and whoever is behind this should be fired.

[Neil]

Maybe then homosexuals should take a look at their behavior and evaluate what they have done to make people hate them so much.

[Martinus]

Maybe then homosexuals should take a look at their behavior and evaluate what they have done to make people hate them so much.

Makes one wonder why you would be defending Uganda's "people".

[Caliga]

Why does Neil say anything?  To get a rise out of you, that's why.

[Neil]

Maybe then homosexuals should take a look at their behavior and evaluate what they have done to make people hate them so much.

Makes one wonder why you would be defending Uganda's "people".

Why would I defend Uganda's people?  They are bandits, which are no better than homosexuals.

In the beautiful world to come, both homosexuals and Ugandans will be destroyed.

[jimmy olsen]

As someone said on TheAdvocate, try replacing "homosexuals" with any other minority group and see how much balls BBC have to pose a question like this. I think the question is completely unacceptable and whoever is behind this should be fired.

I agree, don't they kill Albino's and sell their body parts for folk medicine there, or is that Tanzania? You'd never see BBC putting up the question "Should Albino's be killed".

[Tamas]

As someone said on TheAdvocate, try replacing "homosexuals" with any other minority group and see how much balls BBC have to pose a question like this. I think the question is completely unacceptable and whoever is behind this should be fired.

I agree, don't they kill Albino's and sell their body parts for folk medicine there, or is that Tanzania? You'd never see BBC putting up the question "Should Albino's be killed".

How many albinos do you know? I guess one less than how many Martinuses.

[DisturbedPervert]

How many albinos do you know? I guess one less than how many Martinuses.

I know two, one of them very well.  Well enough that I know they are the Master Race secretly in control of the planet.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Tomorrow the BBC asks you when will you stop beating your wife?

BBC credibility yesterday= high.

today= low.

weak ass poll, no matter how you spin it.

[Valmy]

What a hilariously horrible poll.  I hope BBC Africa next asks: 'Should Africa be Recolonized?'

[Eddie Teach]

AFAIK, there aren't bills in front of any African legislatures petitioning to rejoin their former masters.

[grumbler]

I am grateful to the BBC for providing such wonderful global entertainment.  Those who wish can follow the shrill antics of the homophobic morons supporting the proposed Ugandan law on the BBC website, and those who couldn't be bothered can follow the shrill antics of the PC morons as they try to convince the world that there are questions that shouldn't be asked in the digital world, even if the question is actually being asked in the real world. 

Bets poll since "should kiddyfuckers be allowed to escape justice if they are talented film makers?"

[Admiral Yi]

I'm with Shelf.  There is value in learning the depth of anti-gay sentiment and by extension how much popular suppot this law is.  I can recall several times when Iraqis were polled about the acceptability of suicide attacks.

Just because you ask a survey question doesn't mean you're hoping for a yes answer.

[Martinus]

I am grateful to the BBC for providing such wonderful global entertainment.  Those who wish can follow the shrill antics of the homophobic morons supporting the proposed Ugandan law on the BBC website, and those who couldn't be bothered can follow the shrill antics of the PC morons as they try to convince the world that there are questions that shouldn't be asked in the digital world, even if the question is actually being asked in the real world. 

Should there be a poll "Did Holocaust really happen?" or "Did Americans deserve 911?"? After all, these are all questions that are being asked in the real world?

I guess it is a broader question of the role of the media - should it be simply a mirror of reality, however nasty it is or should it avoid situations in which it legitimizes extreme, unacceptable views even if some people on the face of planet embrace them?