official: uganda to pass anti-gay bill this year

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_UGANDA_GAYS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-12-06-33-11

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Uganda's anti-gay bill will be passed before the end of 2012 despite international criticism of the draft legislation, the speaker of the country's parliament said Monday, insisting it is what most Ugandans want.

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told The Associated Press that the bill, which originally mandated death for some gay acts, will become law this year.

Ugandans "are demanding it," she said, reiterating a promise she made before a meeting on Friday of anti-gay activists who spoke of "the serious threat" posed by homosexuals to Uganda's children. Some Christian clerics at the meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, asked the speaker to pass the law as "a Christmas gift."

"Speaker, we cannot sit back while such (a) destructive phenomenon is taking place in our nation," the activists said in a petition. "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."

[WillParkinson]

1. A nice helping of scapegoat...

Will cure all their ills.

[Raster]

2. And it's rabidly reich-wing American "christians" providing the secret sauce.

Oh yes, this Ugandan abomination has "made in the USA" all over it.

[William769]

3. This will make NOM happy.

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Birds of a feather....

ETA: She is nothing but pure evil and the people that vote with her are the same. I hope to see a movement like apartheid on the same scale so many years ago (that this type of behavior will not be tolerated).

[MNBrewer]

5. Yeah, NOM is starting to lose in the USA so they're going to try to pick up wins in the 3rd world.

Pure evil.

[closeupready]

4. Laws do not create more love between people.

Sometimes, I get the feeling that nearly everyone who seeks to control bedroom activities is personally unfulfilled.