Uganda Claims 'Jail the Gays' Law Not Meant to Punish Gays

[William769]

Responding to increasingly deep cuts in international aid to Uganda after it enacted draconian legislation that prescribes lifelong jail sentences for many LGBT people, the east African nation's government says the intent of that law has been "misinterpreted."

The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which passed Uganda's parliament with broad support last December and was signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni February 24, was implemented "with a view to curbing open promotion of homosexuality, especially among children and other vulnerable groups," reads a statement from Uganda's Ministry of Foreign Affairs published Monday.

The government contends that international partners that have cut or redirected aid formerly sent to to the Ugandan government — including the U.S., the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and more — in response to the so-called Jail the Gays law, have "misinterpreted [it] as a piece of legislation intended to punish and discriminate against people of a 'homosexual orientation.'"

According to the statement, the Ugandan government "remains committed to the rights of all individuals" and wants to "ensure that nobody takes the law into their own hands." Similarly, the government claims it "remains committed" to guaranteeing full, equal access to all social and health care services for all people in Uganda, "including health and HIV/AIDS services," and claims that it will "continue to enable civil society and [nongovernmental organizations] to operate freely."

http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/07/07/uganda-claims-jail-gays-law-not-meant-punish-gays

Uganda and Russia must have the same PR firm.

[shenmue]

1. Lying sacks of shit.

Murderers.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Yeah, no kidding

Check this out: http://flipthemedia.com/2014/07/pride-prejudice-life-ugandas-kill-gays-bill/

[William769]

5. You took the words right out of my mouth.

[The Magistrate]

2. Amazing, Sir

The argument he is trying to make is 'we are not doing this to punish gays, we are doing it to protect people from gays' --- and he honestly thinks that will HELP him....

[William769]

6. Exactly.

[rocktivity]

4. To punish them for being gay, no

to jail them for being gay, yes.

But it's nice to know that they're hurting from that lack of money.


rocktivity

[Marrah_G]

7. "including health and HIV/AIDS services,"

Which is why they shut down US Aids clinic/lab because it "promotes homosexuality". What is happening there is disgusting and our own citizens are the cause of the spreading hate there.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. "Won't SOMEBODY think of the children!?"

Assuredly, there are some who will gladly swallow this tripe.

[Rex]

9. Yeah just like in Russia.

The law is not to punish gay people, but if a 'security detail' beats the shit out of you and throws you in prison for no reason, remember 'society will continue to operate freely". Such a relief.

Thank God for freedumb! Now, which group is next? fascism is such a slippery slope.