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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SecularMotion
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(146,218 posts)SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)But his move, even if it ends up being symbolic, is a good step.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)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)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