Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable.
Homosexuality remains criminalised in many Commonwealth countries, but the more liberal countries have been horrified by the new legislation.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is going through Uganda’s Parliament after receiving its first reading last month. According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death.
What strikes me as peculiar here apart from the obvious which is that this is so barbaric it defies belief is how come no other Countries other than Britain and Canada have complained, does this mean other nations agree with it or may even be planning to adopt it, unlikely I know even impossible, but I do ask this, albeit tongue in cheek, I wonder how many people slept peacefully in Hollywood last night.
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