Topic: "Kills The Gays" Law in Uganda

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http://www.examiner.com/article/ugandan-leader-passing-kill-the-gays-bill-will-be-christmas-gift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Bill

Yesterday, Ugandan Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga told The Associated Press that not only will the country’s controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill pass before the year is out, but it will practically be a celebratory event. Despite criticism on an international level of the proposal, which would persecute anybody in the LGBTQ community within Uganda, Kadaga insists that Ugandans “are demanding it.”

She reportedly attended a meeting on Friday in Uganda’s capital of Kampala with anti-gay activists, including Christian clerics who insisted to her that homosexuals posed “a serious threat” to Uganda’s children. In fact, some asked her to pass it as “a Christmas gift.” Part of a petition read:

“Speaker, we cannot sit back while such (a) destructive phenomenon is taking place in our nation… We therefore, as responsible citizens, feel duty-bound to bring this matter to your attention as the leader of Parliament … so that lawmakers can do something to quickly address the deteriorating situation in our nation.”


The bill, commonly called the “Kill The Gays” Law, will punish homosexuality according to its placement within two categories: the offense of homosexuality and aggravated homosexuality. The “offense of homosexuality” is defined as the participation in a gay relationship and any same-sex acts. This would be punishable by imprisonment. “Aggravated homosexuality” includes gay acts committed by pedophiles, authority figures, parents, HIV-positive people and repeat offenders, and is punishable by execution. “Carnal knowledge against the order of nature,” homosexual acts, is already illegal in Uganda. However, this bill would strengthen and widen the punishments given

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[MasterChief63]

they can always apply for ASYLUM from Political Persecution

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