Apparently the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, wasn't coming around to our side when he admonished his Parliament last year for passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill without the required quorum and inferred that he would not sign it, reports David Badash in The New Civil Rights Movement. At his national party retreat last week, Museveni told lawmakers that he will sign the bill, adding, "We shall have a war with the homosexual lobby, in the world, backed by these people and you."
Captured on video, that line caught the crowd's attention as they all stood to applaud and cheer Museveni's declaration of war, which TV personality Piers Morgan has aptly dubbed "gay apartheid."
According to Badash, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill "mandates jail sentences -- including life in prison -- for those accused of having sex with members of their own gender, and for those who know LGBT people but do not report them to authorities. Jail is also mandated for those who support LGBT civil rights and the LGBT community."
Previously Uganda's president had said he wouldn't sign the bill unless scientists could confirm for him that homosexuality was not genetic or biological, but a deviant behavior. Apparently they did.
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