Uganda will officially pass the ‘Kill The Gays’ bill at the end of this year despite international criticism.
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said the anti-gay bill will become law by December since most Ugandans ‘are demanding it’.
Referring to the law as a ‘Christmas gift’ to the population, she spoke of ‘the serious threat’ posed by homosexuals.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/... <--- If the link does not work for you, I'm getting some reports that certain people cannot access the site, while others seem to be able to access it. I'm not sure yet if that's due to a netsplit between backbone providers, or if the site has gone down and my local ISP is maintaining a cache.
The final paragraph just makes me intensely, deeply, angry on the face of it. Wasn't this law partially the result of heavy lobbying from some of the Religious Right groups in the U.S.? That's the icing on the crap cake.
EDIT: Yes, it was:
http://www.alternet.org/...