[aSeattleConservative]

I do think that things are going a bit far when, as this bill states, one can be imprisoned for life in Uganda for touching another person “with the intent to commit a homosexual act” in a completely different country. Talk about thought crimes! This is ripe for abuse, even if it were justified on its face.

Two things:
1) Thinking about touching someone would indeed be a "thought crime". The act of touching is a physical act; either physical contact was made between two people or it wasn't.
2) Homosexual acts of "touching" rarely involve a handshake.

[Kahonek]

“Two things:
1) Thinking about touching someone would indeed be a “thought crime”. The act of touching is a physical act; either physical contact was made between two people or it wasn’t.
2) Homosexual acts of “touching” rarely involve a handshake.”

Read the law. Touching can involve any part of the body. Then you have to prove it wasn’t with the intent to commit a homosexual act. Clearly that’s a thought crime. This is a bad law.