{"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":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ugandaflagmap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7159\" alt=\"uganda map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ugandaflagmap-287x300.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ugandaflagmap-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ugandaflagmap-600x626.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ugandaflagmap-980x1024.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ugandaflagmap.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/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<p>President Obama had threatened a cooling in what he described as &#8220;our valued relationship\u201d should Uganda enact the bill, passed by the Ugandan Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; disobedience to the wishes of Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n<p>Such an outcome is highly unlikely. \u00a0Museveni has called Obama&#8217;s bluff. \u00a0And &#8216;ordinary Ugandans&#8217; are delighted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The new law allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; and also criminalises the &#8220;promotion&#8221; of homosexuality&#8221;, <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-26320102\" target=\"_blank\">reports the BBC<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Much prayer was mobilised in Uganda and across the world, including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2014feb19uganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">in neighbouring Kenya<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill follows similar legislation in Nigeria, passed in reaction to pro-homosexual moves in the Commonwealth leaders meeting in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;our valued relationship\u201d should Uganda enact the bill, passed by the Ugandan Parliament. Uganda receives some $400 million in aid [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Stephen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/stephen\/"},"rttpg_comment":19,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/homosexuality-trans\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Homosexuality &amp; Trans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/uk-christian-constitution\/neo-colonialism-cultural-climate-imperialism\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Neo-Colonialism, Cultural &amp; Climate Imperialism<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"President Museveni of Uganda has defied the United States by giving his approval to a bill outlawing homosexual propaganda, we are happy to report. 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