Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which criminalizes homosexual behavior and calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality," which is, among other things, defined as prior convictions for homosexual behavior.
In other words, being gay is now punishable by life in prison. That is an improvement: A previous version of the bill punished aggravated homosexuality with death.
This bill must be rescinded. It is based on the absurd belief that homosexuality is a choice and "learned behavior." It reflects the view, sadly shared by over 90 percent of the Ugandan population, that society should not be accepting of homosexuality, that gays are, in the words of Museveni, "disgusting."
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