Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' bill is back & it may be even worse

Uganda’s government announced that it’s planning to re-introduce a bill to impose the death penalty on homosexuality.

The majority-Christian country got international attention when it first presented the bill in 2009. It eventually passed in 2013 but was struck down in 2014 by Uganda’s Constitutional Court for a procedural issue.

“Homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recruitment by gay people in schools, and especially among the youth, where they are promoting the falsehood that people are born like that,” Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo told Reuters.

Currently, homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and punishable with seven years in prison.

Lokodo said that the purpose of the bill is to expand the current ban on homosexuality to recognize “promotion and recruitment” of homosexuality.

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