{"id":7154,"date":"2014-02-24T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:27:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:27:26","slug":"2014feb24uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2014feb24uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"President signs anti-homosexual bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"uganda<\/a>President Museveni of Uganda has defied the United States by giving his approval to a bill outlawing homosexual propaganda, we are happy to report.<\/p>\n

President Obama had threatened a cooling in what he described as “our valued relationship\u201d should Uganda enact the bill, passed by the Ugandan Parliament.<\/p>\n

Uganda receives some $400 million in aid annually from the United States, which now has to decide whether to show its displeasure by punishing ordinary Ugandans for their leaders’ disobedience to the wishes of Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n

Such an outcome is highly unlikely. \u00a0Museveni has called Obama’s bluff. \u00a0And ‘ordinary Ugandans’ are delighted.<\/p>\n

The new law allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality” and also criminalises the “promotion” of homosexuality”, <\/span>reports the BBC<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bill passed by parliament in December made it a crime not to report homosexuals, which would have made pastoral counselling difficult, but this clause has been removed from the legislation signed by the president.<\/p>\n

Much prayer was mobilised in Uganda and across the world, including in neighbouring Kenya<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Bill follows similar legislation in Nigeria, passed in reaction to pro-homosexual moves in the Commonwealth leaders meeting in October 2012.<\/p>\n

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President Museveni of Uganda has defied the United States by giving his approval to a bill outlawing homosexual propaganda, we are happy to report. President Obama had threatened a cooling in what he described as “our valued relationship\u201d should Uganda enact the bill, passed by the Ugandan Parliament. Uganda receives some $400 million in aid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality-trans","category-neo-colonialism-cultural-climate-imperialism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t