Ugandan lawmakers hold hearings on anti-gay bill

Source: Associated Press

A Ugandan parliament committee on Monday held a second day of hearings on a controversial anti-gay bill that attracted international condemnation for its harsh penalties. Lawmakers indicated the bill could be voted on this week.

... One of the bill's backers, an anti-gay pastor named Martin Ssempa, told the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on Monday that he does not support the death penalty provision. He said instead that gays should face up to seven years in prison.

... Anyone who "aids, abets, counsels or procures another to engage of acts of homosexuality" would face seven years in prison. Landlords who rent rooms or homes to homosexuals also could get seven years.

Some, all or none of those provision could change during parliament's negotiations.


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Uganda has been cracking down on protesters of all stripes and has been generally poking into the private affairs of anyone they don't like. Being able to spy on people to see if they gay or not and going through landlord and rental records? This is authoritarianism, and this is just another way for the Ugandan government to do this.

All Gay Ugandans for the worthless pieces of anti-Gay asshats here in the US...we'd be getting the better part of the deal!

And I mean all of the anti-Gay asshats, and that would include several members of my own family as well...I know, I'm funny that way.:applause:

imagine if this law were applied in America.

Oh, and Martin Ssempa has some nasty thoughts...go on YouTube and look up the video "eat da poo poo".

We know from what they have pressured the Ugandans to do that this is exactly their vision for America.

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