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‘KILL THE GAYS’ LAW REVIVED IN UGANDA
Jason Parsley
Yet another “Kill The Gays” bill was approved last week in the Ugandan parliament. The East African nation has for years attempted to criminalize samesex relations.
Once again there’s globalist outrage over the country’s latest anti-LGBT legislation.
According to the Washington Post, the law would expand “existing restrictions and punishments for same-sex activity, criminalizes doing business with LGBT rights groups and calls for the application of the death penalty in certain cases for gay sex carried out by ‘serial offenders.’”
The law now goes to President Yoweri Museveni, who recently described homosexuals as “deviations from normal.”
“The passing of this discriminatory bill — probably among the worst of its kind in the world — is a deeply troubling development,” said Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement. He added: “If the bill is signed into law, it will render lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Uganda criminals simply for existing, for being who they are. It could provide carte blanche for the systematic violation of nearly all of their human rights and serve to incite people against each other.”
The U.S. condemned the proposed law with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying on Twitter: “The Anti-Homosexuality