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12-21-2013, 04:04 PM
This latest news from Uganda that has one of the highest Christian populations in Africa. Why American and African Christians have such differenet outlook when it comes to homosexuality?Could US Christians support/institute such laws in the US?
Ugandan anti-gay bill includes life imprisonment for certain acts
By Rodney Muhumuza, Published: December 20
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan lawmakers Friday passed an anti-gay bill that calls for life imprisonment for certain homosexual acts, drawing criticism from rights campaigners who called it the worst such legislation in the world.
When the bill was first introduced in 2009, it was widely condemned for including the death penalty, but that was removed from the revised version passed by parliament.
Instead it sets life imprisonment as the penalty for a homosexual act in which one of the partners is infected with HIV, for sex with minors and the disabled, and for repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults, according to the office of a spokeswoman for Uganda’s parliament.
Lawmakers passed the bill unanimously, with no one voicing an objection.
President Yoweri Museveni must sign the bill within 30 days for it to become law.
Homosexuality already was illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law that criminalized sexual acts “against the order of nature,” but the Ugandan lawmaker who wrote the new legislation argued that tougher legislation was needed because homosexuals from the West threatened to destroy Ugandan families and were allegedly “recruiting” Ugandan children into gay lifestyles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ugandan-anti-gay-bill-includes-life-imprisonment-for-certain-acts/2013/12/20/ce2c6b88-6995-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html
Ugandan anti-gay bill includes life imprisonment for certain acts
By Rodney Muhumuza, Published: December 20
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan lawmakers Friday passed an anti-gay bill that calls for life imprisonment for certain homosexual acts, drawing criticism from rights campaigners who called it the worst such legislation in the world.
When the bill was first introduced in 2009, it was widely condemned for including the death penalty, but that was removed from the revised version passed by parliament.
Instead it sets life imprisonment as the penalty for a homosexual act in which one of the partners is infected with HIV, for sex with minors and the disabled, and for repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults, according to the office of a spokeswoman for Uganda’s parliament.
Lawmakers passed the bill unanimously, with no one voicing an objection.
President Yoweri Museveni must sign the bill within 30 days for it to become law.
Homosexuality already was illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law that criminalized sexual acts “against the order of nature,” but the Ugandan lawmaker who wrote the new legislation argued that tougher legislation was needed because homosexuals from the West threatened to destroy Ugandan families and were allegedly “recruiting” Ugandan children into gay lifestyles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ugandan-anti-gay-bill-includes-life-imprisonment-for-certain-acts/2013/12/20/ce2c6b88-6995-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html