Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Claims Country’s Notorious Anti-Homosexuality (“Kill The Gays”) Bill Will Be Passed
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| Uganda Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga |
By Mark Singer | ENTEBBE, UGANDA -- The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament told reporters Monday during a press conference at Entebbe International Airport that she would stand firm against homosexuality and that she will push for that country's notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill to be passed as soon as possible by Parliament.
Rebecca Kadaga made the statement after returning to Uganda following the Inter-Parliamentary Union summit which was held in Quebec,Canada, last week.
During the summit Speaker Kadaga came under heavy criticism from Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird after he blasted Uganda for its appalling LGBTQ equality rights record and widespread homophobic persecutions. After the exchange with Foreign Affairs Minister Baird, Speaker Kadaga accused him of being “ignorant” and “arrogant."
Kadaga reacted Monday telling the press corps and a delegation of anti-gay religious leaders who were there to meet with her at the airport, along with the bill’s sponsor, MP David Bahati;
“They said I should stop the debate on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, but I assured them there is no way I can block a private members bill."
She added;
"I will not accept to be intimidated or to be directed by any government in the world because we are independent," Kadaga told the crowd.
"I will now instruct the chair of the Committee of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to quickly bring the report of the anti-homosexuality bill so that we can discuss it and so that Uganda can take a position."
"If the price of aid is going to be the promotion of homosexuality in this country," she said, "I think we don't want that aid."
The bill was first introduced in 2009, by Bahati but has yet to gain parliamentary approval.
Sodomy is already illegal in Uganda, punishable by up to 14 years in prison. But this legislation would penalise "aggravated homosexuality"— consensual same-sex acts committed by "repeat offenders," anyone who is in a position of power, is HIV-positive, or uses intoxicating agents i.e. alcohol in the process — with capital punishment.
The lesser "offence of homosexuality," also criminalised in the bill, encompasses anyone who engages in a same-sex sexual relationship, enters into a same-sex marriage, or conspires to commit "aggravated homosexuality."
Several Western nations, including the United Kingdom and Canada, have threatened to revoke foreign aid to Uganda should the measure pass although Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has stated that while he does not support the bill, he stated he believes lawmakers should be allowed to debate it.
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This needs more than just cutting off aid. What is needed is a complete cutting off of all diplomatic relations. I wish they'd arrested the bitch while she was still in Canada, but of course she hadn't yet committed an actual illegal act (under Canadian law).
Independent? She says her country is independent? Well then, she should abandon her 17th century English wig; it's weight is obviously overheating her brain and interfering with her ability to think. Similarly her people's adopted form of Christianity has, courtesy of U.S. religious wingnuts, stalled her ability to be rational or even understand the premise of human equality rights, let alone those of the LGBTQ people.
Kadaga and Bahati have consigned their country to being regarded as a primitive anachronism, devoid of reason, intelligence, and seriously in need of having their ignorance challenged by an education that avoids Creationism and other religious nonsense.
This lady has just simply got to be a relative of that other Ugandan loon of record, Idi Amin Dada.
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