Here’s a sticky wicket of hypocrisy for virtue signaling do-gooders of the world.

At the end of May, the African nation of Uganda enacted anti-gay legislation that seems unthinkable.

Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad.

The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ+, a key concern for some rights campaigners who condemned an earlier draft of the legislation as an egregious attack on human rights.

But the new law still prescribes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people.

A suspect convicted of “attempted aggravated homosexuality” can be imprisoned for up to 14 years, according to the legislation.

WAIT, wait, wait, wait – that doesn’t sound like Florida at all. And of course it’s not – it’s down right medieval.

The new laws were merely a grim step up from what they already had in force from colonial times – homosexuality had always illegal and punishable by life in prison. These new “aggravated” conditions now put the death penalty on the table.

Uganda is majority Christian, primarily Catholics and Anglicans. There was quite a bit of speculation that the lurch of the Church of England toward sanctifying same-sex marriages had produced a polar opposite reaction among the citizens of Uganda. They were so enraged at what they saw as repudiation of and disrespect for their traditional, conservative Anglican beliefs, that they snapped. This set of statutes has wide approval throughout the country, and when you look at the continent itself, that’s sad but not a surprise.

…Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries. Some Africans see it as behavior imported from abroad and not a sexual orientation.

As there should have been, an international hue and cry went up.

…The United Nations Human Rights Office said it was “appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now law,” describing the legislation as ”a recipe for systematic violations of the rights” of LGBTQ+ people and others.

In a joint statement the leaders of the U.N. AIDS program, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund said they were “deeply concerned about the harmful impact” of the legislation on public health and the HIV response.

And now, in retaliation for the law and the Ugandan entrenchment against rescinding it, the World Bank has pulled their funding from the country.

The World Bank said it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill that rights groups and others have condemned.

The World Bank had deployed a team to Uganda after the law was enacted in May and determined that additional measures were necessary to ensure projects align with the bank’s environmental and social standards.

…“Our goal is to protect sexual and gender minorities from discrimination and exclusion in the projects we finance.

These measures are currently under discussion with the authorities,” it added.

Oh, really. Uganda, with a poverty rate (based on World Bank data) in 2019 of over 91%…

…can no longer avail itself of World Bank funding because of what seems to be a deeply ingrained, continent-wide issue of cultural mores – and in no way do I agree or condone what they have decided. So the World Bank has decided it’s better for, schmaybe, children to starve, fields not to be planted, if Uganda cannot conform to the World Bank’s “social standards” for sexual and gender minorities?

From the World Bank’s lofty statement, this first paragraph…

“Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act fundamentally contradicts the World Bank Group’s values. We believe our vision to eradicate poverty on a livable planet can only succeed if it includes everyone irrespective of race, gender, or sexuality. This law undermines those efforts.

Inclusion and non-discrimination sit at the heart of our work around the world.

Tugs at the heartstrings, no? They should put it to music.

That’s also all well and good, but why then is the hoity toity World Bank funding projects in, oh, I dunno…AFGHANISTAN…if they’re so bloody worried about gender discrimination? They stone women to death there, girls can’t go to school – WOMEN ARE CHATTEL.

The World Bank gives the Taliban money.

I wonder what the Taliban does to homosexuals? Oh, my gosh – looks like they discriminate.

…Afghanistan was a dangerous place for LGBT people well before the Taliban recaptured Kabul in 2021. In 2018, the government of President Ashraf Ghani passed a law that explicitly criminalized same-sex sexual relations, and the previous penal code included vague language widely interpreted as making same-sex relations a criminal offense.[2] LGBT people interviewed had experienced many abuses because of their sexual orientation or gender identity prior to the Taliban’s return to power, including sexual violence, child and forced marriage, physical violence from their families and others, expulsion from schools, blackmail, and being outed. Many were forced to conceal key aspects of their identity from society and from family, friends, and colleagues. However, when the Taliban, which had been in power from 1996 to late 2001, regained control of the country in August 2021, the situation dramatically worsened.

Mauritania still has a death penalty on the books for “homosexuality.” Guess who’s still there handing out money.

The World Bank Group undertook its first development project in Mauritania in 1963, with the financing of MIFERMA, a multinational mining enterprise. Since 1985, this partnership has been gradually expanded. Currently, the partnership is guided by the 2018 Country Partnership Framework (CPF), reviewed in 2021 and which objective is to support the creation of conducive conditions for sustainable and inclusive growth.

Under the CPF framework, and aligned with the Government’s development priorities, the World Bank Group’s support in Mauritania focuses on Infrastructure (Energy and Digital), Agriculture, and Private Sector development, along with building Human Capital. The Bank’s portfolio in Mauritania currently comprises one budget support operation (the last of a series of three); nine national projects; and seven regional projects, for an overall commitment of $803 million.

Growing commitments are expected with a pipeline of new operations in agriculture, education, health, energy, digital, and statistics. The commitments of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, totaled $113 million, while the gross commitments of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) amounted to $300 million as of February 28, 2023.

But, oh, my gosh! The Mauritanians are? ISLAMIC

Like the Taliban is? ISLAMIC.

But the Ugandans are…wait for it… Oh, shoot. you knew, already.

I gave it away at the top of the piece.

Is that what the World Bank means by their “values”? That only impoverished Christian developing nations who institute rules that displease them are subject to arbitrary defunding?

The World Bank is still lending to CHINA, for crying out loud! Ask a Uyghur about how “discrimination” and World Bank “values” coexist.

China and the World Bank Group (WBG) have worked together for over 40 years. The WBG’s new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for FY2020 to 2025, issued in December 2019, reflects the evolution of the Bank Group’s relationship with China toward a decline in lending and a more selective engagement in line with the capital increase commitments agreed to by its shareholders in 2018.

The CPF aims to help China address some of its remaining development challenges, notably the transition to more environmentally sustainable growth, strengthen key Chinese institutions engaged in economic and social development, and reduce inequality in lagging regions.

These pretentious frauds.

Let the little black Christian babies starve so we can wave a righteous rainbow flag. The World Bank gets it’s social score brownie points in a splashier fashion and makes the papers. So much better for them than quietly working to change hearts and minds behind the scenes.

Besides, they’re betting Uganda’ll cave soon enough anyway – bet they need the money.

With “values” like that, who needs enemies?