Uganda Celebrates Anti-Gay Law With Five-Hour Ceremony

[DonViejo]

“I am mobilized to fight this war,” President Yoweri Museveni told the crowd.

J. Lester Feder
BuzzFeed Staff

KAMPALA, Uganda — Fire jugglers, acrobats, and schoolchildren performed at a five-hour ceremony in the Ugandan capital on Monday called to celebrate the country’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act.

Speakers paid tribute to President Yoweri Museveni, the official guest of honor, and linked Uganda’s fight against homosexuality with shedding its colonial past in an event that had the feeling of a campaign rally.

“Today, we come here again [to celebrate] sovereignty and freedom … [and] to take charge of our destiny,” said David Bahati, the lawmaker who sponsored the bill, noting that the event was taking place at the Kololo Independence Grounds, the parade grounds where Ugandan independence was granted in 1962. “The citizens of Uganda are with you, Mr. President. The religious and cultural leaders are with you, Mr. President. The members of parliament and the nation is behind you.”

The event, called the “National Thanksgiving Service Celebrating the Passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill,” was organized by the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), an umbrella organization of the country’s major denominations, and other groups that had supported the bill, which punishes homosexuality with up to life in prison and essentially bans LGBT advocacy.

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[Laughing Mirror]

1. Horrifying!

Making a festival out of hate and preaching their evil insanity to their children.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Uganda is 42% Catholic, the largest religious group in Uganda. Francis has said nothing

about this. People say he's a good man. People say many things. Another 40% of Uganda is Anglican, and that Church's Bishops have been very nasty in their brand of support of this law. Yet I sure don't see American Anglicans doing much to oppose that which is being done in the name of their faith. They seem to be content to remain as silent as Francis, who is said to be a good man....