Uganda's president sends anti-LGBTQ bill back to parliament to make it even tougher

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but sent it back to parliament on Thursday to make it even tougher, the ruling party's chief whip said.

A group of lawmakers from Museveni's ruling National Resistance Movement discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to sign the bill into law, chief whip Denis Hamson Obua said.

Obua said Museveni would hold a meeting on Tuesday with parliament's legal and parliamentary affairs committee to draft the amendments. Museveni is a strong opponent of LGBTQ rights who last month called gay people "deviations from normal". He faced a possible juggling act trying to keep lawmakers happy over legislation that has broad popular support while not antagonising foreign donors who provide billions of dollars in aid each year.

 

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DeSantis wildly taking notes

aggravated homosexuality... does that mean one is exceptionally flamboyant?

Proudly Ugandan

Isolate this criminal!

Worse than Florida?!

While the UN reduces pedophilia to a non-criminal offence, I commend KagutaMuseveni for his bold action!

Coward

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