“I am sure the bill will take a different form when it is tabled on the floor in parliament,” says Uganda’s Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem, in comments that arrive just days after President Obama denounced the bill. Which is great news! Not so great news: Zero details on how it’ll change.
“Homosexuality is not a top priority for the people of Uganda,” Oryem continues. “Our priority is to make sure there is food on the table of our people – that we deal with the issue of disease.” Fine. But it must be enough of a priority that some lawmakers want to execute some gay citizens. And even though Oryem indicates the bill will change by the time it’s voted on — following the bill’s author, David Bahati, saying he’s willing to “amend some clauses” — it’s still unclear whether state-sponsored execution of gays will be the only piece removed.
Meanwhile, not everyone is as willing to admit international pressure is affecting Uganda’s legislative process. “Somebody should tell President Obama that the parliament is doing its legislative duty in the interest of the people of Uganda,” says ethics minister and terrible person James Nsaba Buturo.
Rob Tisinai
This isn’t just a kill-the-gays bill. This bill is out to kill their straight friends too. It’s simple:
1. The death penalty applies to anyone convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.”
2. Aggravated homosexuality includes all “serial offenders.”
3. A serial offender is “a person who has previous convictions of the offence of homosexuality or related offences.”
4. Related offences (Part III of the bill) include not ratting out your gay friends.
So if you’re convicted a couple times for not ratting out gay friends, then you can be executed.
You don’t even have to be gay to be executed for aggravated homosexuality.
http://wakingupnow.com/blog/kill-the-straight-friends-of-gays
B
I really don’t understand what “aggravated homosexuality” actually is if it more than being a “serial offender”. Is being drunk at the time a valid defense for the “aggravated” charge, serial offenders excepted?