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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 01:13 PM Jan 2014

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni blocks anti-gay law

Source: BBC

17 January 2014 Last updated at 15:37 GMT


Some gay Ugandans have fled the country, saying they are being persecuted

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has refused to approve a controversial bill to toughen punishments for homosexuals.

He has written to the parliamentary speaker criticising her for passing it in December without a quorum.

Homosexuals were "abnormal" or were so for "mercenary reasons" and could be "rescued", a local paper quotes his letter as saying.

The bill provides for life imprisonment for homosexual acts and also makes it a crime not to report gay people.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25775002

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Uganda President Yoweri Museveni blocks anti-gay law (Original Post) cbayer Jan 2014 OP
God Loves Uganda SecularMotion Jan 2014 #1
In light of that, would you agree that this is a very good move on the President's part? cbayer Jan 2014 #2
It looks like he can't stop the bill SecularMotion Jan 2014 #3
Yeah, I saw that and that is bad. cbayer Jan 2014 #4
Yoweri Museveni cannot be overridden cosmicone Jan 2014 #5
Americans’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push SecularMotion Jan 2014 #6
 

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
3. It looks like he can't stop the bill
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 01:37 PM
Jan 2014
Our reporter says Mr Museveni is trying to reach a compromise with MPs, because if he refuses to sign the bill, parliament can still force it through with a two-thirds vote.
 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
5. Yoweri Museveni cannot be overridden
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 01:58 PM
Jan 2014

not because of the constitution but because of who he is -- he could make Chris Christie look like a sniveling kid about to burst into tears.

 

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
6. Americans’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:11 PM
Jan 2014
KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks.

The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html?_r=0
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