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I know, and I'm not celebrating that, but it is very likely that the social and political conditions today are very homophobic and basically required said legislation. Are there any polls that show the move as unpopular there?
And just as Cuba and Castro started with a homophobic path and then backtracked, we need to trust that the oppressed people's of the nation will also rise up and demand a backtrack of homophobic and regressive laws.
I don't know. And I'm saying that just assuming that it is necessary to do this without any information like that isn't exactly well reasoned.
And it would not have been wrong at the time to call that a mistake, and to refer to it as a mistake with hindsight. Both of those have been done by Cubans themselves, and the second thing by Castro himself. And just as we didn't and don't have to condemn Cuba for this early homophobia, we don't have to condemn Burkina Faso. But we can acknowledge that this is a regressive law that will hurt people and it is disappointing to see.