Uganda Kill The Gays Pastor: Homosexuality Will Never Be Legal

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Pastor Martin Ssempa, the top religious advocate for the Uganda Kill The Gays bill, says in this 2010 video that he is working to make “legislation to make sure that sodomy and homosexuality never sees the light of legality in this land.”

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Sssempa then describes sexual conduct (conduct, in fact, not limited to same-sex partners, mind you,) — — some of which, most would agree, is behavior that is limited to a tiny segment of the homosexual and heterosexual population — that, as Ssempa says, is conduct that takes place in “the privacy of their bedrooms,” so why legislate against it?

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Another speaker says, “As Africans, we have to ask Barack Obama, is this what he wants to bring to Africa?,” as if homosexuality is a Western export.

“Ssempa and others … continue to claim homosexuality is imported from the West, is a threat to Ugandan children and needs to be legally stopped,” said Christopher Senyonjo, a Ugandan Bishop working to defeat the bill, according to a special report in SDGLN.

Uganda’s infamous “Kill The Gays” bill, which would provide the death penalty for the “crime” of being gay, anyone convicted of same-​sex rape, anyone who is classified as a “serial offender,” even anyone with HIV, is about to become law, based upon current reports and the surrounding political situation in the staunchly conservative and Christian East African country. The bill has been debated in the Uganda Parliament for the past two days, and may come to a vote in the next 24 hours, which is when the current session of Parliament concludes.

Caution: this video may be upsetting to some.