Yet another “Kill The Gays” bill was approved last week in the Ugandan parliament.
The East African nation has for years attempted to criminalize same-sex relations.
Once again there’s globalist outrage over the country’s latest anti-LGBT legislation.
According to the Washington Post the law would expand “existing restrictions and punishments for same-sex activity, criminalizes doing business with LGBT rights groups and calls for the application of the death penalty in certain cases for gay sex carried out by ‘serial offenders.’”
The law now goes to President Yoweri Museveni, who recently described homosexuals as “deviations from normal.”
“The passing of this discriminatory bill — probably among the worst of its kind in the world — is a deeply troubling development,” said Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement. He added: “If the bill is signed into law, it will render lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Uganda criminals simply for existing, for being who they are. It could provide carte blanche for the systematic violation of nearly all of their human rights and serve to incite people against each other.”
The U.S. condemned the proposed law with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying on Twitter: “The Anti-Homosexuality Act passed by the Ugandan Parliament would undermine fundamental human rights of all Ugandans and could reverse gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS. We urge the Ugandan Government to strongly reconsider the implementation of this legislation.”
According to the Post though right-wing religious activists in the U.S. have for years campaigned in Africa pushing the country’s enacting anti-LGBT legislation.
“Versions of the bill have been around since 2009, and in 2014, Museveni’s government passed a similar law, whose first iteration included the death penalty for HIV-positive people and for engaging in gay sex with a minor. It was ultimately struck down by the court for not following due parliamentary process,” the Post writes.
Foreign Policy did a deep dive on the subject recently in a story, “How U.S. Evangelicals Helped Homophobia Flourish in Africa.”
