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Ugandan parliament passes bill to jail gay people
BBC ^ | 21 March 2023 | Patience Atuhaire & James Gregory

Posted on 03/21/2023 10:12:33 PM PDT by Cronos

Uganda's parliament has passed a bill which would criminalise people who identify as gay, or a sexual minority.

Individuals could face lengthy prison terms if the bill is signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni.

Under the proposed legislation, friends, family and members of the community would have a duty to report individuals in same-sex relationships to the authorities.

Homosexual acts are already illegal in the east African country.

But the bill seeks to go further and criminalise people on the basis of their sexual identity.

The bill, which was first tabled earlier this month, passed with widespread support in Uganda's parliament on Tuesday.

It will now go to President Museveni who can choose to use his veto - and maintain good relations with Western donors and investors - or sign it into law.

The bill also stipulates that a person who is convicted of grooming or trafficking children for purposes of engaging them in homosexual activities faces life in prison.

Individuals or institutions which support or fund LGBT rights' activities or organisations, or publish, broadcast and distribute pro-gay media material and literature, also face prosecution and imprisonment.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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Africa leading the way?
1 posted on 03/21/2023 10:12:33 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Grooming should be met at least with castration.

Rape should be met with death or at least loss of all privates.


2 posted on 03/21/2023 10:16:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Cronos

They are plugging the hole (no pun intended) before things reach the state America is in.


3 posted on 03/21/2023 10:21:08 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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To: Cronos

Way to go, Uganda! The older I get, the less tolerance I have for the gay freaks. They are most of them, purely evil, and I think the muzzies have the right idea- hang a few of them each year, and the rest will STFU.


4 posted on 03/21/2023 10:28:17 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: Cronos

I agree with throwing groomers in jail, but locking people up for long prison terms because they identify as homosexual is nuts.


5 posted on 03/21/2023 10:33:29 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: ConservativeMind

> Rape should be met with death or at least loss of all privates.

If it’s an actual rape, then yes. But ask a cop how many rape accusations are true. Most aren’t.


6 posted on 03/21/2023 10:37:14 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Penelope Dreadful

Looks like Uganda is trying to win favor from Russia and the Islamic world.


7 posted on 03/21/2023 10:37:20 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: ConservativeMind

I agree.


8 posted on 03/21/2023 10:39:43 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: Cronos

Sending gays to prison… could be counterproductive


9 posted on 03/21/2023 10:41:11 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Cronos
I always say: "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime …"

10 posted on 03/21/2023 10:58:19 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Why couldn’t they just stay in the closet in the US, when most people knew who was gay, but they just called themselves “roommates” and it was don’t ask, don’t tell.

I am not as extreme as a number of people here on the subject...but I AM NOT BLIND.

It was NEVER gonna stop at “recognition” and then “domestic partnership” etc. etc.

It was always going to lead where it has led to and should have been stopped early on.

I don’t believe in the death penalty for being gay.

Grooming..that’s a WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY and I believe in a monster prison sentence for that...and there are many ways to groom.

Rape is a death penalty to me for ANY kinds of rape.

Like I said, why couldn’t they just stay the #@#@ in the closet? Now with the sick things they have forced upon our children, they leave us no choice but to fight back.

Oh well


11 posted on 03/21/2023 11:06:17 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Cronos

Good for them and a bit less drastic than Islamic Cult throwing them off rooftops and better than the US putting them in our churches and schools.


12 posted on 03/22/2023 12:02:47 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: dp0622

The predatory activism against children far exceeds the homo demo — a systemic evil

Regarding the closet, I no longer GAF about the consequence detailed in the article. The Left eviscerated whatever tolerance/sympathy I once cared to realize.


13 posted on 03/22/2023 12:06:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Cronos

Excellent. Many other nations should emulate them.

We should not fall for the dishonest journalism here, by any stretch. The law doesn’t criminalize people for some nebulous notion of “being gay,” whatever that means in a public sense. It criminalizes presenting yourself in a formal, marriage-like sexual relationship with someone of the same sex. In other words, you can’t present yourself as “married.” And who could be against the sexualization of children, unless you’re a pervert?


14 posted on 03/22/2023 1:21:18 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: jimwatx

That’s not what this law does. Stop falling for the propaganda.


15 posted on 03/22/2023 1:22:27 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: dp0622

Yup. Obviously there are some sins that haven’t typically been criminalized, because to enforce them causes more problems. Breaking down doors to investigate “roommates” for suspected sodomitical acts sounds too Big Brother to me.

But we are a couple of Sodom and Gomorrah’s beyond that now, and I think most sensible people are realizing that this **** has gone too far.

Personally, I think gays can’t stay in the closet because flaunting themselves IS their fetish. Normal married people draw a modest curtain around this part of their lives.


16 posted on 03/22/2023 2:50:37 AM PDT by Claud
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To: fwdude

BBC That’s all you need to know.


17 posted on 03/22/2023 3:15:59 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: Cronos

I encourage all homosexuals to relocate to Uganda


18 posted on 03/22/2023 3:46:49 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Well, that’s one way to keep them from hooking up in public restrooms...


19 posted on 03/22/2023 3:57:45 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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To: dp0622

“...being Gay...”

No such thing.

Sodomy is the first stop on that controversial line, though (grooming being a later stop). Outlaw (or re-outlaw) sodomy, and hold the line while a certain fraction of the population objects vociferously, and begin prosecuting flagrant cases. See where and what that gets you and consider next steps in terms of additional laws. But don’t recognize an identity associated with the act.


20 posted on 03/22/2023 4:07:28 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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