Uganda's parliament has passed a new law that criminalizes identifying as LGBT and could allegedly be jailed for up to a decade.
Musa Ecweru, member of parliament for the Amuria District, addressed lawmakers, saying homosexuals will have "no space in Uganda”.
“There was a ‘violent incident’ that took place at the Ugandan Embassy in Midtown, according to the Ugandan Ambassador to the United Nations, Adonia Ayebare.
Ayebare also said there was a South Sudanese diplomat that was injured in the incident.
This event took place just a few days after the UN rights chief urged Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to block an anti-LGBTQ bill that prescribes harsh penalties for some homosexual offenses, including death and life imprisonment.
Ambassador Ayebare says it is too early to determine a motive, but that the individual might have been angry about the anti-LGBTQ bill.
The bill would require the implementation of the death penalty in cases involving ‘aggravated homosexuality’.
According to the bill, a suspect convicted of ‘attempted aggravated homosexuality’ could be jailed for up to 14 years, and the offense of ‘attempted homosexuality’ is punishable by up to 10 years.
The bill was introduced last month by an opposition lawmaker who said his goal was to punish ‘promotion, recruitment and funding’ related to LGBTQ activities in this East African country where homosexuals are widely disparaged. The bill now goes to Museveni, who can veto or sign it into law.
He suggested in a recent speech that he supports the legislation, accusing unnamed Western nations of ‘trying to impose their practices on other people’.
Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries”. -Adeja Shivonne
While a lone judge striking down reputed “anti-gay” legislation is a supposed indication of social progress in the Western world, even when it contrasts with the will of the legislature and the electorate, genuinely democratic measures taken by entire foreign nations that criminalize gayness, such as Uganda’s new bill to address the cultural imperialism of Globohomo, get completely disregarded by Western powers.
The Ugandan law intends to preserve the sanctity of the family, protect the safety of Ugandan children, and ensure the continuation of humanity through reproduction.
Now that countries worldwide have observed what has happened to societies that have exercised tolerance as well as the repeated forlorn attempts to appease the gay rights activists and their arbitrary demands, they’d like not to experience the same sort of consequences in their own culture.