Obama: [Ugandas] Anti-gay law would 'complicate' relationship with Uganda

The Los Angeles Times ^ | February 16, 2014 | Christi Parsons

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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Obama warned Sunday that a harsh new anti-gay law in Uganda would “complicate our valued relationship” with the east African country, which receives hundreds of millions of dollars a year in U.S. aid.

In a last-ditch effort to derail the measure, national security advisor Susan Rice called Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni over the weekend and urged him not to sign the measure. The law includes a provision of life in prison for “aggravated homosexuality.”

But amid news reports that Museveni was intent on pressing forward, Obama said Sunday that the move would be “a step backward for all Ugandans” and would reflect poorly on the country’s commitment to protecting the human rights of its people.

“As we have conveyed to President Museveni, enacting this legislation will complicate our valued relationship with Uganda,” Obama said in a written statement released Sunday. “At a time when, tragically, we are seeing an increase in reports of violence and harassment targeting members of the LGBT community from Russia to Nigeria, I salute all those in Uganda and around the world who remain committed to respecting the human rights and fundamental human dignity of all persons.”(continued)

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“This is defined as exposing another sex partner to HIV, sex with minors or the disabled (homosexual rape), or repeat offenders among consenting adults.”

The first two of these are reasonable, as for the third, I still say it opens doors for all kinds of obscene and fundamental human rights violations. But again, I would never feel it is my right to dictate to Ugandans how to run their nation anymore than I would another nation.

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... a harsh new anti-gay law in Uganda would “complicate our valued relationship” with the east African country,...
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Why doesn’t our closet Muslim say this to all of his buddies in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Indonesia and elsewhere and stop giving them billions of our tax dollars?