BREAKING: Ugandan President to Sign 'Jail the Gays' Bill
Source: The Advocate
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has indicated that he is planning to sign into law the country's long-languishing Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would impose lifetime jail sentences for certain instances of homosexuality and would sentence anyone who performs a same-sex marriage to seven years' imprisonment.
Government spokesman Ofwondo Opondo announced the decision on Twitter Friday, and a spokeswoman for the ruling National Resistance Movement confirmed the decision to BuzzFeed.
Opondo's tweets Friday afternoon noted, "The NRM caucus has welcomed the development as a measure to protect Ugandans from social deviants," and explained that "Ugandan traditionalists, religious leaders & politicians have been urging Museveni to sign the Bill."
Opondo also said the president was apparently swayed by a report presented at an ongoing parliamentary retreat where a dozen lawmakers "with medical backgrounds" claimed to have scientific proof that homosexuality was "socially acquired" and curable.
Read more: http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/02/14/ugandan-president-sign-jail-gays-bill
"There should be no doubt that Museveni's latest words on the subject have been influenced by the reaction to similar legislation in Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere."
The civilized world needs to step in and intervene with these barbaric scum sucking low low life no good fucking assholes!
Behind the Aegis
(54,087 posts)Once again, we see our GLBT brothers and sisters at the mercy of hate and intolerance.
William769
(55,160 posts)Will this madness ever end?
Behind the Aegis
(54,087 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)William769
(55,160 posts)Yes we have many loons here in America and a couple in Congress.
ck4829
(35,103 posts)I think I remember reading Martin Ssempa is already using the mob moral panic to accuse critics of the 'high crime' of homosexuality, it's only a matter of time before someone points a finger back at him or someone he loves...
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)for this. Fucking assholes. Sorry, but I can't think of anything nicer to call them.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)n/t
riversedge
(70,593 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)They_Live
(3,253 posts)Sick.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)this vicious action. People on DU tell me it is very important what Francis says, because he has so many followers who pay close attention. Francis has told his followers that opposition to gay rights is 'God's war' and told them to fight it. The rest is silence.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-12/opinion/ct-pope-francis-catholics-perspec-0212-jm-20140212_1_u-s-catholics-american-catholics-pope-francis
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)While DU folk hero Francis has remained silent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/in-rare-public-split-catholic-bishops-differ-sharply-on-anti-gay-laws/2014/02/13/ccfcdd84-94e6-11e3-9e13-770265cf4962_story.html
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)diabolically evil nation should not receive anything from the US.
Cha
(298,326 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Nothing like a little religion to bring out the cruelness and violence in people.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Since our own Christian fundies provoked this, the US has done enough damage.
And I agree, they are barbaric scum sucking low low life no good fucking assholes.
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