Looking at the African setting, I can say the continent is far behind the promotion of any act of homosexuality. But this does not mean conscious efforts should be made to punish homosexuals such as criminalizing being gay with legislative instruments….
Ahead of the signing of Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill into a legislation, President Barack Obama condemned the move, stating that it would jeopardize the existing known relationship between Uganda and America.
Uganda’s president-Yoweri Museveni who is obviously not happy about Obama’s condemnation has released a statement, explaining why he will sign the bill and sending out a message to Obama…
Read the full statement below…
I have seen the statement H.E President Obama of the USA made in reaction to my statement that I was going to sign the anti-homosexual Bill, which I made at Kyankwanzi.
Before I react to H.E. Obama’s statement, let me, again, put on record my views on the issue of homo-sexuals (ebitiingwa, bisiyaga in some of our dialects).
Right from the beginning of this debate, my views were as follows:
1. I agreed with the MPs and almost all Ugandans that promotion of homosexuality in Uganda must be criminalized or rather should continue to be criminalized because the British had already done that;
2. those who agreed to become homosexuals for mercenary reasons (prostitutes) should be harshly punished as should those who paid them to be homosexual prostitutes; and
3. exhibitionism of homosexual behavior must be punished because, in this part of the World, it is forbidden to publicly exhibit any sexual conduct (kissing, etc) even for heterosexuals; if I kissed my wife of 41 years in public, I would lose elections in Uganda.