Only days after the controversial measure to imprison all gay persons in Uganda was approved by the Ugandan parliament, the president of Uganda urged Africa to “rescue the world from homosexuality.”
The startling bill that stipulates the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” will be signed into Ugandan law by President Yoweri Museveni.
Human rights organisations have called the bill, which will prohibit Ugandans from “promoting and abetting” homosexuality as well as from planning to participate in same-sex relationships, “appalling.”
Museveni stated that homosexuality was “a tremendous menace and danger to the procreation of the human race” in remarks made on Sunday, April 2.
‘Africa should provide the lead to save the world from this degeneration and decadence, which is really very dangerous for humanity,’ the president said.
‘If people of opposite sex stop appreciating one another then how will the human race be propagated?’
The anti-homosexuality legislation was approved late on March 21 in Kampala, the country’s capital.
After that, Amnesty International encouraged Museveni to veto the anti-gay measure, stating that it was “a horrific assault” on LGBTQ people.
