Ugandan lawmakers have announced plans to resurrect its “kill the gays” bill which mandates the death penalty for homosexuality. The bill, which has the support of President Yoweri Museveni, is expected to be introduced and voted on by the end of the year.
Andy Towle at Towleroad:
Ugandan lawmakers have announced plans to resurrect its “kill the gays” bill which mandates the death penalty for homosexuality. The bill, which has the support of President Yoweri Museveni, is expected to be introduced and voted on by the end of the year.
Reuters reports: ‘The bill – colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda – was nullified five years ago on a technicality and the government said it plans to resurrect it within weeks. “Homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recruitment by gay people in schools, and especially among the youth, where they are promoting the falsehood that people are born like that,” Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.’
