Uganda Parliament Speaker: Re-Approving Anti-Homosexuality Act “Is Going To Be Smooth”

Jim Burroway

August 11th, 2014

A march took place in Kampala to present a petition to Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga demanding the reintroduction of the recently nullified Anti-Homosexuality Act. Over the weekend, 207 Ugandan lawmakers signed a petition asking that Kadaga circumvent Parliamentary rules and call a snap vote to re-approve the AHA after the Constitutional Court nullified the law after parliament approved it in December without a constitutionally-mandated quorum. The first speaker in this raw NTV Uganda footage is unidentified, but the second is Kadaga, who told the crowd:

…thank the religious leaders, the young children, the public who are here, who have come to present a petition demanding that we re-table the Act. I just want to inform the public that I think that notwithstanding anything that happened, the public should be grateful to the members who have stood on the side of the family all this time and had the courage to sit and enact this law. And I want to assure you that now that we have the 207 signatures, the rest is going to be smooth.

The ruling National Resistance Movement’s Parliamentary caucus is set to meet with President Yoweri Museveni to map out a plan for the Anti-Homosexuality Act’s future.

Mark F.

August 11th, 2014

Black Nazis.

gar

August 11th, 2014

God, these guys wouldn’t know a get-out-of-jail-free card if it gave them a paper cut. The stupid law is dead, so let it stay dead.

Leonardo Ricardo

August 11th, 2014

All wrapped up in righteous-defensive-ignorant-is-better, terrorized of reality SELVES! It’s all about ego driven over-sexed religiouslike holyspewing vigilantes who duck/fu*k away from the spotlight when truth wins out – scurry away, Madame Speaker and try and protect yourself from the shame you bring when you slander your fellow citizens…family ALL in the name of a country heavily laced with Sex SLAVERY, Child WITCHBURNING, rampant ALCOHOLIM, heteroporno PARADISE and vertical CORRUPTION. Waddle away from being RESPONSIBLE one more day…just, try, keep trying to blame your very own cultural/spiritual/emotional sickness on ¨the Gay¨…there is no place to hide.

corey

August 12th, 2014

You can thank the evangelical christians from USA for lying their way into the African confidence.

Sharon B

August 12th, 2014

Effing social dominators and their enabling authoritarian followers. A lethal union! A world-wide problem. Must have their “other” to brutalize.

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