Comments for Power, sex and scandal at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:06:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/features/features/42-features/2159-power-sex-and-scandal#comment-21802 Museveni and Besigye have had their own personal women problems which have made their political rivalry more colorful and visceral than it would have otherwise been. Would there even have been a FDC opposition without the personal differences between Mu7 and Besigye ? Without their personal rivalry spilling into the political arena, it is conceivable that Uganda's politics would probably have been entirely different. - Ocheto Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:32:15 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/features/features/42-features/2159-power-sex-and-scandal#comment-21749 I was looking for a common thread in all these examples. I wonder to what extent - including the Japan example - the Augustinian legacy has played in the fixation on sex in the casting of public figures. Note: St Augustine Aurelius was Bishop of Hippo, died 430AD. Kings David and Solomon pre-dated Augustine, but our interpretation of history - in sexual terms - is still influenced by his legacy. It is instructive, though, that in the story of David and Solomon it is not sexual activity as such, not even sexual im-morality that is the problem. David could have as many sexual liaisons as he wishes as long as he did not take Uriah's wife and then have Uriah deliberately killed in battle. Same applies to Solomon. Marrying outside Israel was wrong because the foreign wives made him serve foreign gods with their own value system. - Rev Amos Kasibante Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:10:42 +0100