Uganda passes bill making homosexuality punishable by death

Ugandan MP Musa Ecweru
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On Tuesday, Uganda’s parliament passed a bill imposing the death penalty for homosexuality.

Homosexual sex was already punishable by life imprisonment under Ugandan law. The new bill, a revived version of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that was nullified by the east African nation’s constitutional court in 2014, would make “aggravated homosexuality” a capital crime and imposes a life sentence for “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities,” The Guardian reports. According to Human Rights Watch, the proposed law is the first to make identifying as LGBTQ+ a crime.

The bill passed with overwhelming support. Only two of the Christian-majority nation’s 389 MPs voted against it. One legislator claimed that the penalties imposed by the bill did not go far enough, proposing an amendment that would make homosexuality punishable by castration.

A member of parliament in Uganda proposes for gays to be castrated as an amendment in the homosexuality bill.
by u/256ugft in LGBTnews

The bill now goes to President Yoweri Museveni, who has not said whether he supports the legislation. However, he has signed previous anti-LGBTQ+ bills into law.

In a recent speech, Museveni suggested that the new law…

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