Ugandan president blocks homophobic bill

Ugandan president blocks homophobic bill

REPORTS have emerged that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has blocked the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

According to Ugandan newspaper The Monitor, the president accused Ugandan Parliament of breaking the law by passing the bill in December 2013 without the minimum number of parliamentry members present at the time of the vote for it to be valid.

Despite this, Museveni still described homosexuals as “abnormal” beings who could be “rescued” through economic empowerment and “cured”.

He also said he would support a life sentence for citizens who lure “normal” youth into “disgusting behaviours” – especially homosexuality.

The report also stated the president’s political party, the National Resistance Movement, would find a “scientifically correct” position on the anti-gay legislation.

The news comes after reports earlier this week of fellow African country Nigeria passing strict homophobic laws with up to 14 years imprisonment.

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5 responses to “Ugandan president blocks homophobic bill”

  1. I have learnt from a documentary that Uganda (Belgium Congo at that time) was the place where AIDS transmitted from the animal on the human being. According to that document the science was responsible as scientists had been using chimp kidneys to develop vaccine against polio and such vaccine was obligatory applied to large quantity of local population.

  2. I have learnt from a documentary that Uganda (Belgium Congo at that time) was the place where AIDS transmitted from the animal on the human being. According to that document the science was responsible as scientists had been using chimp kidneys to develop vaccine against polio and such vaccine was obligatory applied to large quantity of local population.

  3. We are indeed fortunate that we have been born in a country that has to some degree come to terms with us. But rights won are just as easily removed and there is always the danger that religious (any kind) and conservative forces will sweep away what we these days take for granted. Remain vigilant. “Alert but not alarmed” like the fridge magnet told us to be.