M7 throws out LGBT bill

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Muskeeter nambari wani EA sees the light.
Museveni blocks Anti-Homosexuality Bill
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By Yasiin Mugerwa
Posted Friday, January 17 2014 at 02:00
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President accuses Parliament of breaking
the law by passing the Bill without quorum.
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Parliament- President Museveni has
confronted Speaker Rebecca Kadaga for
passing the controversial Anti-gays Bill
without quorum and described
homosexuals as “abnormal” beings who
can be “rescued” through economic
empowerment.
In an eight-page letter to Speaker and MPs
dated December 28, 2013, the President
said he was forced to contrite on the issue
by “a small group of our MPs, led by Hon
Kadaga” who forced through the Bill even
after he had advised to shelve it until the
government had studied it in depth.
“Some elements, however, insisted and even
without quorum of Parliament, passed it,”
the President said. “How can you pass law
without the quorum of Parliament after it
has been pointed out? What sort of
Parliament is this? How can Parliament be
the one to break the Constitution and the
Law repeatedly?”
But Parliament spokesperson Helen Kawesa
yesterday said if there was no quorum, “that
can be established by the relevant bodies in
Parliament,” adding that several Bills were
passed between October and December last
year, and with similar numbers in the House.
The President said a homosexual is
somebody who is abnormal because the
normal person was created to be attracted
to the opposite sex in order to procreate
and perpetuate the human race. He said,
nature goes wrong in a minority of cases.
While in the Bill passed by Parliament there
is no provision for killing homosexuals; the
President said, “The question at the core of
the debate of homosexuality is; what do we
do with an abnormal person? Do we kill
him/her? Do we imprison him/her? Or we
do contain him/her?”
While the President said homosexuality is an
abnormal condition that can be cured, he
disagreed with the position of Western
countries that homosexuality is an
“alternative sexual orientation”. “You cannot
call an abnormality an alternative
orientation. It could be that the Western
societies, on account of random breeding,
have generated many abnormal people,” he
said, adding that his acid test for rejecting
Western position is that nature is
purposeful.
The President said apart from the people
who are abnormal, it seems there is a group
of those that become homosexual for
“mercenary reasons”—they get recruited on
account of financial inducements. He said
this is a group that can be rescued and that
many of the youth fall in this category.
As for lesbians, the President said apart
from those born abnormal and those ones
that may become lesbian for mercenary
reasons, there may be those that go into the
practice because of “sexual starvation”
when they fail to get married.
The President said the rescue for
homosexuals is first and foremost,
economic, focusing on rapidly industrialised
Uganda, modernisation of agriculture etc. By
delaying government projects needed to
create jobs for the unemployed youth, the
President said the MPs are exposing the
unemployed youth or “impecunious
students” to the risks of homosexuality and
other temptations.
“Even with legislation, they will simply go
underground and continue practicing
homosexuality or lesbianism for mercenary
reasons,” he said.
The President said he would support a life
sentence for one who lures normal youth
into “these disgusting behaviours” –
especially homosexuality. He said the NRM
Caucus will find a scientifically correct
position on the proposed anti-gay
legislation.
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