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Eugene

(61,899 posts)
Wed Apr 5, 2023, 10:08 PM Apr 2023

Ugandan president calls on Africa to 'save the world from homosexuality'

Source: The Guardian

Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’

Museveni says homosexuality is ‘danger to procreation of human race’ at Entebbe conference hosted by US anti-LGBTQ+ hate group

Alice McCool
@McCoolingtons
Mon 3 Apr 2023 13.09 EDT

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has called on African leaders to reject “the promotion of homosexuality”, suggesting he will sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which was passed by parliament last month.

The bill, which imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and life imprisonment for “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”, has been widely criticised internationally, with the UN high commissioner for human rights urging the president not to sign it.

Speaking on Sunday, Museveni said homosexuality was “a big threat and danger to the procreation of human race [sic]”.

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His comments followed a two-day inter-parliamentary conference held at State House in Entebbe on “family values and sovereignty”, attended by MPs and delegates from 22 African countries, including Zambia, Kenya and Sierra Leone. State House said British MPs had attended the conference, but was not able to name them.

The event was promoted by the Ugandan parliament, the African Bar Association and the Nigerian-based Foundation for African Cultural Heritage. Delegates could also attend the conference online, hosted by the US evangelical Christian organisation Family Watch International, which is defined as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a watchdog that monitors the far right. The president of Family Watch, Sharon Slater, who also chairs the UN Family Rights Caucus lobby group, spoke at the event.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/03/ugandan-president-calls-on-africa-to-save-the-world-from-homosexuality

No-registration link: https://archive.is/KYyrq

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From the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Family Watch International works within the United Nations and with countries around the world to further anti-LGBT and anti-choice stances. Founder Sharon Slater promotes anti-LGBT pseudoscience that includes the falsehood that homosexuality is a mental disorder derived from childhood trauma, and that so-called “conversion therapy” can effectively eliminate same-sex attraction.


https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-watch-international
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Ugandan president calls on Africa to 'save the world from homosexuality' (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2023 OP
Idiot--humans should procreate less, not more. tblue37 Apr 2023 #1
Do we provide any foreign aid to this country? Glorfindel Apr 2023 #2
Close to a billion dollars a year, I just read. LoisB Apr 2023 #4
Well, there you go. I'm sure better use could be made of that money. Glorfindel Apr 2023 #5
Indeed. LoisB Apr 2023 #6
8 billion mouths to feed lambchopp59 Apr 2023 #3

Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)
2. Do we provide any foreign aid to this country?
Wed Apr 5, 2023, 10:22 PM
Apr 2023

If so, I think it's time to stop it. These monsters are promoting murder, if not genocide.

Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)
5. Well, there you go. I'm sure better use could be made of that money.
Wed Apr 5, 2023, 11:03 PM
Apr 2023

Let Uganda take care of itself. I don't want my tax money going to murdering monsters.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
3. 8 billion mouths to feed
Wed Apr 5, 2023, 10:25 PM
Apr 2023

Mass extinction of countless species. Most of the entire world burning through a year's resources in a few months. Countless starving homeless worldwide. Orphans of these good Xtians in desperate need of homes.
And idiots like this still stuck on "Be fruitfly and reproduce" er, methinks how dat bibble passage goes.

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