He president Ugandan Yoweri Museveni said he will not back down after the enactment of an anti-law LGBTIQ+ that seeks to impose severe punishments and that has the death penalty as the maximum penalty.
In the context of a country engulfed by the homophobiaMuseveni anticipated his refusal in a message posted through his Twitter account: “The signing of the Law against Homosexuality is finished. Nobody will move us. We must be prepared for a war. Remember that war is not for softies.”
According to the president, in earlier times homosexuality was a matter of a private nature. “People didn’t encourage it. It was a little secret hidden from some people,” he noted.
In his homophobic speech, the president revealed that tried to “look into the matter” to determine if “homosexuality is something genetic or inherited by some people” and he wondered if it couldn’t be a hormonal disorder, a “distortion” caused by an imbalance of hormones.
“Psychological disorientation” is the word used by the president of Uganda to define homosexual people. This disorientation causes “there are people who hate the people they should love and love the people they shouldn’t love”.
What is Uganda’s prehistoric law promulgated by the president?
The law, criticized by the UN and countries like the United States, was approved on March 21 in Parliament and was defended by legislators with the pretext that these measures protect the national culture and its values.
The new law allows the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, for cases of sexual relations involving persons infected with HIV and minors; and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison for the charge of “aggravated attempted homosexuality.”
Homosexuality is criminalized in the East African country as a “crime against the order of nature”since the laws that governed during colonization, but since independence in 1962 there has never been a conviction for consensual sexual acts between people of the same gender.
Source: Ambito
