I would argue its none of anyone’s business what Uganda does. This was not decided by a judge or a dictator, it was decided by an elected parliament.
Around the world, there are a wide variety of laws governing what people are allowed to do with their leisure time. Brunei for instance has a prohibition against alcohol, while we in America enjoy the right to drink as we wish. In Singapore, you can be executed for bringing narcotics into the country, but in Portugal it’s not an issue.
Uganda is adopting laws that are not a mile away from laws that exist in a large amount of countries around the world, now including India.
Personally, I prefer the Russian approach that preserves libertarian freedom to do as you wish consensually in the bedroom, but bans promotion of unnatural and harmful practices to children. However Uganda as an independent country have a right to choose their own laws as long as they do not violate the very basic God-given rights we all share as human beings. I don’t see how this law could be interpreted as doing that.
I recommend everyone read the frothing at the mouth going on in the Guardian comment section. Talk of ‘banning religion’, and forcing Uganda to conform to England’s substandards of sexual morality. And get this, they denounce moral relativism! Their key export as leftists!
Just proves the left are hypocrites. They denounce colonialism as evil, but then become colonialists themselves.
As observed in my post #4 and dead’s #18, that’s all very well, but the law is still “draconian” by definition.