“In 1778, Thomas Jefferson wrote a law in Virginia which contained a punishment of castration for men who engage in sodomy, however, what was intended by Jefferson as a liberalization of the sodomy laws in Virginia at that time was rejected by the Virginia Legislature, which continued to prescribe death as the maximum penalty for the crime of sodomy in that state.”
If you actually bother to LOOK at the proposed law in Uganda, it’s not mere “sodomy” that is the object of the ban.
It is something much vaguer which might include a brother hugging another brother.
You are not budging me one iota from pointing out that there is a witch hunt here, and that you are being a useful idiot for the witch hunt.
Caryl Chessman went to the gas chamber in 1960 for sodomy convictions.