Posted on 02/24/2014 5:22:34 PM PST by markomalley
Uganda's president signed a law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality on Monday, defying protests from rights groups, criticism from Western donors and a U.S. warning that it will complicate relations.
The new bill strengthened existing punishments for anyone caught having gay sex, imposing jail terms of up to life for "aggravated homosexuality" - including sex with a minor or while HIV-positive.
It criminalized lesbianism for the first time and made it a crime to help individuals engage in homosexual acts. Gay rights activists in Uganda said they planned a legal challenge.
Ugandan officials broke into loud applause as President Yoweri Museveni put his signature to the document in front of foreign journalists at his State House outside the capital.
"There's now an attempt at social imperialism, to impose social values. We're sorry to see that you (the West) live the way you live but we keep quiet about it," he said.
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+100
What does it tell you that Russia and Uganda have better Presidents than we do?
Good for him! Just another example of how 0bama has absolutely no influence, the worthless POS!
Obama is all wee weed up.
Not good.
This guy is likely going to kill these people. This is just tyranny. Reminds me of Idi Amin.
Meanwhile Obama is giving this country 7 billion in aid.
This is diversity I can celebrate
Colonialism is bad, except when they do it
There is no death penalty clause in the bill.
One thing you have to say about uganda.... they seem to be able to wipe out 50% of their population every 25 years and still have a growing population
What a fine display of Ugandan Exceptionalism.
Defying the West? I must have missed the moment when the western leftists were appointed dictators of the world. Has there ever existed a more self rightious self entitled group of people in the history of the world?
“There is no death penalty clause in the bill.”
It was dropped due to an uproar. It was his original wish.
Wouldn’t trust that climate.
I don’t know Mark
Obama can threated all he want he can’t do jack to Ugandra beside they pretty conservative in that country
Since when are leftist elitists known as “the West”?
Don't break their laws while visiting and you should be fine.
No, it wasn’t his original wish. It was the wish of the MP who introduced it, David Bahati, representing Ndorwa West, and was removed during negotiations between supporters in the parliament.
The president would rather not have the international uproar, but his hand has been forced by the parliament and the public, who are behind the law.
The only examples in Africa I have seen recently of homosexuals being killed have been in Muslims areas and at the hands of their own lovers, like David Kato, who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by his live-in houseboy. The law is likely just to send a message, like Kenya’s harsh penalties for minor offenses.
Since they took over
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