Uganda’s president has urged Africa to “save the world from homosexuality,” just days after the Ugandan parliament passed a contentious bill that would jail all gay people.
President Yoweri Museveni will sign the shocking bill into Ugandan law, which imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
Under the law, Ugandans will be prohibited from ‘promoting and abetting’ homosexuality as well as conspiring to engage in same-sex relationships, which human rights groups have called ‘appalling’.
On Sunday, April 2, Museveni stated that homosexuality was a “significant threat and danger to the procreation of the human race.”
‘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 bill was passed late on March 21 inside a packed parliamentary chamber in the capital Kampala.
Amnesty International subsequently have urged Museveni to veto the anti-gay bill, warning it was ‘a grave assault’ on LGBTQ people.